I was going to say that dual-booting was for sissies, but I decided not to.
It is, however, inefficient. VMs like VirtualBox work quite well. All you need to do is decide which OS (typically the one you are most comfortable using) you want to be the host, and then install a guest OS VM to run under it. I've worked for the past 6 years using Linux as my main OS, with a Windows XP guest running concurrently as a VirtualBox VM. Best of both. --Doug -- Doug Roberts [email protected] [email protected] http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins <http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins> 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 8:09 PM, James Steiner <[email protected]>wrote: > Yes, all that is very easy nowadays, from what I hear. Do find someone who > has done one recently, best practices have changed. Many folks are happy > to use virtualbox or the freeware version of vmware to run Linux in a vm in > windows , some prefer to dual boot. Note than windows 7 has a built-in run > time partition editor now, though it might be ignorant of the Linux > filesystems inside those partitions. Also, windows nt, xp and 7 all have a > bootloader, it can also be used to multiboot linux, but I think most Linux > -centric folks overlook it for grub, etc. > > ~~James > On Feb 26, 2012 7:32 PM, "Owen Densmore" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have a friend who has an AMD processor based Windows system (Windows 7 >> IIRC). >> >> He wishes to convert it to a dual-boot Windows/Linux system, with two >> bootable partitions, one for each OS. >> >> Many years ago I did this sort of thing, but a lot has changed. >> >> Do any of us have experience with this? A good pointer/site on how to do >> this? >> >> He does seem to be confused a bit about all the possibilities: >> - Virtual Box >> - Cygwin >> - Dual boot (with both partitions being bootable) >> - Which distro to use (He mainly wants to do development w/ C/C++ within >> the mathematics world) >> >> I was surprised that he thought it necessary to use linux .. I presumed >> he could do everything he wanted to do in Windows itself but apparently >> compilers were not there and that sort of thing. I do know on the mac you >> can install a "developer's sdk" for free (have to register) and presumed >> that was also possible with Windows. >> >> Any pointers much appreciated! And alternatives too. >> >> -- Owen >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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