[tlinux-users:08646] Re:

The basic trick is to get some hard drive space in a separate partition for the Linux installation.  (other posters)

Then you install Linux to that partition.  Most installers for various linux distributions give you push-button options to get things into the right partition.

Then the boot-up menu needs to have a pointer to each partition.  So when you want Vista, you tell it to boot Vista.  Again, there are >1 way to do this.  GRUB is the most common Linux solution these days.


Now .....

If you don't want to jump in quite all the way yet.  There are several bootable CDs for linux (and BSD for that matter).  These boot of the CD and don't touch your hard drive at all.  This way you can pop the CD, reboot and you're back where you started.

I personally like Puppy (puppylinux.org).  I use it both in the bootable CD mode and I install it onto USB drives (that script is pretty idiot-resistant now).  v2.17 is the current.

RedHat has recently included a bootable CD flavor in the Fedora distributions.  I run hard-drive-installed Fedora (currently v7) on my every-day work machines but no mileage on the bootable CD.  



Dual boot is a pretty common setup these days.




On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:54:24 -0500
"Bill Nickels" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a Satellite A205-S4777 with Windows Vista and want move to Linux and 
> dual boot.
> 
> Any positive or negative experiences/comments with specific distributions 
> would be helpful.
> 
> 
> Thank You,
> 
> Bill Nickels
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