What if you have only one computer, and you want to be able to run Linux as well
as Windows? Well, you can — through something called dual booting. Dual booting is an either/or
proposition. You can’t really run Windows and Linux at the same time. This month’s column will be of most
use to Windows 3.x/95/98 users. If you’re running NT, you should purchase the commercial product,
What if you have only one computer, and you want to be able to run Linux as well as Windows? Well, you can — through something called dual booting. Dual booting is an either/or proposition. You can’t really run Windows and Linux at the same time. This month’s column will be of most use to Windows 3.x/95/98 users. If you’re running NT, you should purchase the commercial product,
When you start up a computer with Linux installed, you get the prompt, LILO:. If you do nothing, press the “enter” key or type linux then Linux will start up. If you have a dual boot computer, you can type the name of another operating system (like Windows) at this point and start that OS instead of Linux. It’s pretty easy to install Linux to dual boot on a machine that’s already running Windows, but it’s not so easy to add Windows to a machine that’s running Linux. I would not recommend trying this unless you absolutely have to.
If you already have Windows installed, there are a few common scenarios for those looking to create dual boot machines:
1. You have one disk drive with one “partition.” In other words, you have a single disk and you see only drive “C:” from “Windows Explorer” or “My Computer”.
2. You have one disk with two or more partitions. You can see drives “C:” and “D:”, even though you have only one hard drive (Figure 1). These are called…
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