On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 09:46 -0700, Lance Orner wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 07:19:12AM -0700, Pdoucettj wrote: > > I am interested in setting up a dual hard drive to boot linux or windows. >
> My latest solution: a KVM switch. We all have an extra computer > kicking around -- plug them both in, one with Linux and the other with > Windows. Switch between with a keypress. And any cron jobs you have > will always be run, which doesn't always happen in dual boot. Having > two dedicated boxes solves a lot of problems. > > I haven't fired up VMWare in years, another solution, but I haven't > felt like paying for a license. > A couple other useful things you can do is install VNC on the windows machine and view the desktop from your Linux machine, as well as use terminal services if that version of windows supports that. I've done this before, and it is pretty useful and fast, especially terminal services over a LAN. The other way around is you can install an Xserver on the windows machine, such as cygwin/x11 (free, open source), and display any Xwindows graphical or terminal apps onto your windows machine.
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