what is vmware. Hay if I can say have a system where I can boot to say linux but have dos or windows in the background and keep switching that would bee good. Probably I'd have to share linux with dos, but I don't know, it depends on what you tell me about os switching. I never thought about this before, and its the ultimate solution if its free. And not too large. You have peaked my interest! Please let me know how I can get this os switching set up and how I can make a boot manager accessible. This is actily what I want. Thanks very much! At 04:29 a.m. 26/02/2005, you wrote: >I agree with the advice to put Linux on its own machine, but not for any >difficulty with configuring dual boot systems. Actually, it's not that >hard to put a reasonably accesible dual boot system together. > >The problem arises from the fact that you can't be in both environments >at the same time (without something like vmware, but let's not go >there). On a dual boot environment, you choose which OS to boot, and the >other remains unavailable to you unless you reboot. > >As a result, you learn less, because you can not readily turn from one >OS to the other for a simple (or more complex) task. Rather, you have to >close out whatever you have open, taking care to save open files, >shutdown, wait for the new system to boot, then open another >application, etc., etc., etc. > >Now, who will do such a thing just to check out some new trick you've >just heard about for the grep command? Or to test a suggested >configuration setting for mutt or lynx? Or to learn something cool with >sed or awk? > >No, you won't reboot for such things. You'll wait until you have nothing >better to do--and that day rarely comes. > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list