[Novalug] Dual booting safely

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

I only scanned it briefly. My comments are:

[1] what is this concern with "safety"? It's not a dangerous or 
difficult thing to do.
[2] don't try and teach VI commands in your page. that knowledge is 
assumed, or you can write another paper for that. It just muddies what 
you are trying to do.
[3] makeactive may or may not be required; I never use it, and I have 
two Windows XP systems running on two separate partitions on my disk.
[4] Only XP or Vista matters. Windows 95 or 98 are obsolete.

My general strategy is to have one Rescue Linux system that owns the 
MBR, and to chainload to every other possible partition, even other 
Linux systems. They can write their boot code in their own partition. 
Sure, you go thru two (or more) grub boots, but the first one never changes.

All my computers have two disks each with a full complement of 15 
partitions each!

JIM

Michael Hughes wrote:
> Hello Friends and Luggers,
>
> I posted a paper on how to dual boot Linux with Windows /safely/.
> Please take a look and tell me what you think.
>
> Thanks!
> -Mike
>
> http://itismike.com/documents/dualbootsafely.html
> http://itismike.com/documents/editbootconfig.html
> http://itismike.com/documents/rescue_from_saved_grub.conf.html
>
> PS: the link to http://vilearn.org seems to be dead - does anyone know
> if this site goes down often?
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