Subject: Dual-booting with one of ``them''?
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Richard Rauch <rauch@eecs.ukans.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/08/2000 13:07:39
Since my present computer has plenty of drive space, I thought that it
might be interesting to see what one of the LINUXen actually runs
like.  (Sometime over the next few weeks I intend to take the system down
and upgrade to 1.5, anyway.  And I've been meaning to see what LINUX
actually runs like on my home system.)

What's the current wisdom on dual booting?  (I used to dual-boot between
MS-WINDOWS '95 and NetBSD, a few years ago; I used the (IBM?)
boot-selector that comes with Partition Magic for controlling the booting.  
I think that in order to use PM, I would actually need to install it under
MS-WINDOWS, alas.  Needless to say, there is no BillOS partition on my
machine.)


I seem to recal hearing that we include a boot selector of some sort.  Is
that correct?  If so, where is it, and are there any caveats?  If we
don't, is a usable one likely to be included with a typical LINUX
distribution (say SuSE or Red Hat, or something that I might grab off of
the 'net)?


  "I probably don't know what I'm talking about." --rauch@eecs.ukans.edu