confused, no, stressed yes. i noted in my first reply that I wrote at an early hour. It might have been respectful to ask if I were confusing the terms, not write as if I were. You simply wrote in what seemed to me to be inconsiderate fashion. Kerry has been more helpful and i have the answers I need thanks. On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, luke wrote: > 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
