The only time I dual-booted BSD and Linux, I used
LILO, which comes with many distributions.  If you
haven't chosen a distribution to go with yet, I
recommend downloading Debian.

Ben
--- Richard Rauch <rauch@eecs.ukans.edu> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 


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