If you have to ask, you're probably not ready for it. http://www.vmware.com Shaun Everiss writes: > 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 -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://a11y.org If Linux can't solve your computing problem, you need a different problem. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list