On Sat, 5 Jan 2008, "Frode Egeland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. How to create a toggle? > > On the fly? You need to make your Ubuntu a virtual machine that runs > inside Windows. Otherwise, you will need to reboot, which is not 'on > the fly' at all..
What apps do you need in Windows? The chances are that a lot of them will have
good equivalents in Linux. Otherwise, you can try WINE or virtualisation as
Frode has mentioned above.
> > 2. Share or access data files seamlessly between the systems?
>
> For dual-boot: Make a FAT32 partition, which both systems can access
> with full read/write.
I believe that Ubuntu now does safe read/write of NTFS by default, through the
ntfs-3g driver. A FAT32 partition should no longer be needed.
> For a VM, I've found that using WinSCP to copy files is easiest.
> Others might have better suggestions?
WinSCP is nice and easy. You should also set up SMB sharing between the host
and guest (virtual) operating systems.
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