[TriLUG] Linux and WinXP on same drive

[Cristobal Palmer]

Notes will be distributed at the meeting.

;-)

-CMP

On 4/7/06, Warren Myers <volcimaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> I (probably) won't be able to make the meeting next week. Will notes/etc be
> posted on TriLUG?
>
> WMM
>
> On 4/7/06, Cristobal Palmer <cristobalpalmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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
UNC-CH SILS Student
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cmpalmer at ils.unc.edu
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"Television-free since 2003"