[TriLUG] Linux and WinXP on same drive

Cristobal Palmer cristobalpalmer at gmail.com
Fri Apr 7 12:35:38 EDT 2006


Considered trying Xen [0], Qemu [1] or (avast! a proprietary product!
arrrrrgh) VMware [2]?

Maybe one day the hardware [3] for running an unmodified windows vm in
xen will be cheap.... What am I saying? Maybe one day windows will be
irrelevant.

If nothing else, (not having to reboot)++

Please note that our meeting next week is on Xen. Come on down and
learn something, eh?

-CMP

[0] http://www.xensource.com/products/downloads/
[1] http://www.qemu.com/about.html
[2] http://www.vmware.com/products/ws/
[3] http://www.xensource.com/news/pr082305.html

On 4/7/06, T. Bryan <tbryan at python.net> wrote:
> On Friday 07 April 2006 00:09, Rodney Radford wrote:
> > If I remember the details correctly, you want WinXP and Linux on one
> > physical drive (in different partitions), and Win98 on a second physical
> > drive.  If that is correct, yes, you should be able to do that with grub.
>
> You can also let the Windows XP boot loader kick things off, can't you?
>
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+NT-Loader.html
>
> That's how I have been letting Windows and Linux share the same drive lately.
> And I'd hope that the WinXP boot loader would be able to handle the
> multi-boot between WinXP and Win98 well, but I've never done that.
> Windows...bleh.
>
> ---Tom
>
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Cristobal M. Palmer
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