I would recommend setting up a virtual machine instead of a dual boot system. The difference is that with a dual boot system, you boot into either linux or windows. With a virtual machine, either the linux or windows operating system runs as a virtual machine in the other operating system. But you don't have to reboot to get to the other operating system. I've found that the only time I use the "other" operating system on my dual boot machines is for testing purposes. For instance, I'm typing this message on a machine that's dual boot but I haven't booted it into linux for months. Really since I set it up. Most often what I do is boot my old dual boot machine into linux and use that. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Lewellen" <klewellen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 12:02 AM Subject: duo boot systems...revisited, i think? > sigh, > Just when I think I have a reasonable mind and the door to the hard ware, > I have to start all over again. > I thought there was a discussion once about the need for a duo boot > system, but I cannot find this. > pros cons, really needful? > My goal remains for a number of reasons, a system with two separate > drives, I know I need not do this, but just call me paranoid grin. > for the foreseeable future, dos will remain my primary os, with the Linux > distro I use on the second drive. > I am building a different machine that will be a stand alone Linux server > box, with some extras given the results of additional research. > Sorry is this is a newbie question, but after reading that the *official* > stock of Debian does not support speakup,...I am behind on reading the > rest of that thread, I am being more careful than ever. > Thanks, > Karen > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
