Re: [expert] Dualboot/Multiboot

2003-10-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 10:08, Felix Miata wrote: Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Felix Miata schrieb am Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:17:57 -0400: Run Windows and Linux from same boot partition = Dualboot Run Windows and Linux different partitions on the same PC = Multiboot Huh? I thought the

Re: [expert] Dualboot/Multiboot

2003-10-17 Thread James Sparenberg
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 15:01, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday October 16 2003 01:03 pm, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: www.phatlinux.com runs linux on a windoze partition, even on windoze XP/NTFS. Catch? It aint freee.nominal fee however. That was my first look at Mandrake (6.0).

Re: [expert] Dualboot/Multiboot

2003-10-17 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 23:48, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 15:01, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday October 16 2003 01:03 pm, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: www.phatlinux.com runs linux on a windoze partition, even on windoze XP/NTFS. Catch? It aint freee.nominal fee

Re: [expert] Dualboot/Multiboot

2003-10-17 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 16 October 2003 11:48 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 15:01, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday October 16 2003 01:03 pm, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: www.phatlinux.com runs linux on a windoze partition, even on windoze XP/NTFS. Catch? It aint

Re: [expert] Dualboot/Multiboot

2003-10-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 17 Oct 2003 1:09 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 23:48, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 15:01, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday October 16 2003 01:03 pm, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: www.phatlinux.com runs linux on a windoze partition, even on windoze

Re: [expert] Dualboot/Multiboot

2003-10-17 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 11:22, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 17 Oct 2003 1:09 pm, ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 23:48, James Sparenberg wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 15:01, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday October 16 2003 01:03 pm, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: www.phatlinux.com

Re: [expert] Dualboot/Multiboot

2003-10-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 17 Oct 2003 4:30 pm, ed tharp wrote: that was win4lin , to run windows inside a linux file system (secure, and not to slow). not Lin4win, to run linux on a M$ file system (insecure,no permissions, emulated and slow,) Ah, yes. I remember reading about that. It didn't sound too

Re: [expert] Dualboot/Multiboot

2003-10-17 Thread Felix Miata
ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 13:08, Felix Miata wrote: Yes, dual does mean 2 - 2 exactly. But, multi means more than 1. So, the two terms can easily be confused when the actual count is two. The difference is multiboot uses some type of boot manager that is capable of switching

Re: [expert] Dualboot/Multiboot

2003-10-17 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 12:51, Felix Miata wrote: ed tharp wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 13:08, Felix Miata wrote: Yes, dual does mean 2 - 2 exactly. But, multi means more than 1. So, the two terms can easily be confused when the actual count is two. The difference is multiboot uses

Re: [expert] Dualboot/Multiboot

2003-10-16 Thread Felix Miata
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Felix Miata schrieb am Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:17:57 -0400: Run Windows and Linux from same boot partition = Dualboot Run Windows and Linux different partitions on the same PC = Multiboot Huh? I thought the difference between dualboot and multiboot was the number

Re: [expert] Dualboot/Multiboot

2003-10-16 Thread Ricardo (Tru64 User)
www.phatlinux.com runs linux on a windoze partition, even on windoze XP/NTFS. Catch? It aint freee.nominal fee however. Richard --- Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Felix Miata schrieb am Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:17:57 -0400: Run Windows and Linux from

Re: [expert] Dualboot/Multiboot

2003-10-16 Thread ed tharp
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 13:08, Felix Miata wrote: Wolfgang Bornath wrote: Felix Miata schrieb am Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:17:57 -0400: Run Windows and Linux from same boot partition = Dualboot Run Windows and Linux different partitions on the same PC = Multiboot Huh? I thought the

Re: [expert] Dualboot/Multiboot

2003-10-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday October 16 2003 01:03 pm, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: www.phatlinux.com runs linux on a windoze partition, even on windoze XP/NTFS. Catch? It aint freee.nominal fee however. That was my first look at Mandrake (6.0). Then phatlinux was free. IIRC a 170mb zip file, expanded