I am sorry to hear that about your nephew. That said, for what it's worth, I couldn't give a fig about your spelling, Karen. rather than criticizing your spelling, I was attempting to clarify your meaning. You were talking about a "duo processor". That to me suggests a "Core duo processor", which is an Intel processor which, as far as I know, has no connection to this conversation. It is a "dual core" processor, but if you thought that you need a dual core processor to setup a dual boot system, then you are mistaken. I thought that perhaps you were confused in some way, and thought you needed a "duo processor" to do "dual booting", which is certainly not true. As such, I thought I would ask you about your meaning, in hopes of saving you some money if in fact you had a misimpression that a hardware change was needed in order to dual boot. I was not talking about your spelling at all. If I some how misread your message, and you did not mention a "duo processor" as I thought for sure I read in your message, then I apologize for bothering you with my less than helpful help. I will let the others who, as you say, had no trouble understanding you, help you in the future. Regards, Luke On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Karen Lewellen wrote: > I am sorry that my spelling is such an issue for you. > As expressed I wrote that post in the middle of the night. > Not shared however is that I learned that my 20 year old nephew died of a > heart attack in America, and i was more than a bit distracted. > Others seemed to understand my meaning, > Indeed my goal is to run DOS and Linux on different hard drives, and boot into > Linux as needed. > Is that clear enough for you? > > > On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, luke wrote: > > > On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Karen Lewellen wrote: > > > > > Not running windows, but will hunt virtual options for DOs. > > > > There are no virtual options for DOS, at least not for running virtuals > > under DOS. A virtual machine is one operating system which runs in an > > emulated hardware environment under another operating system. Linux and > > Windows can run virtual DOS machines, but DOS can not run virtual > > anythings. > > > > Now, for DOS under Linux, DOSEmu is probably a better solution than > > virtualization. > > > > > now that I think of it though, a reboot is no major factor, any way to > > > create > > > a . bat file run in dos that will reboot the system into Linux as needed > > > into > > > Linux without requiring the duo processor? > > > > What do you mean by "duo processor"? If you are talking about multiple > > core processors, those have nothing to do with duel boot (duel not duo). > > > > Duel boot, is when you can boot into one of many operating systems which > > are installed on your machine, usually in separate hard drive partitions, > > or on separate hard drives. That has no connection what ever, either to > > multiple processors, multiple cored processors, or duo anythings. > > > > > I have been dragging out this business long enough, but hardware and > > > talent > > > has been the issue. I do not want yet another hardware factor because I > > > have > > > to find a duo processor. > > > > Again, what is this "duo" processor, and why do you need it? > > > > Luke > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
