Best Way to Multi-Boot?

[Stephen]

you know, you probably could use Wubi, and install Linux into a flat
file on top of NTFS... but still might be simpler...

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Steve Holmes <steve at holmesgrown.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 02:52:15PM -0700, Stephen wrote:
>> well depending on what drives you are using for OS you can dual-boot
>> with both OS's on the same drive then use the remaining drives for
>> data. but my preference is to give windows its own drive and a
>> "untouched" boot-sector just in case i do something silly to grub. and
>> then put the Linux drive and grub on its own as well. then use a singe
>> drive for data between the two.
>
> That's exactly what I'm trying to do.  For now, I wanna leave my brand
> new laptop with windows on it since that is my only copy of windows 7
> plus the HP junk that enables some of the extra control keys like
> audio volume and the launch of selected applications.  Then I could
> just plug in the drive to my USB port and boot from the selected BIOS
> boot menu and go from there.  If I boot with a USB stick that has an
> ISO for my distro (Arch Linux) on it, the machine comes right up
> through grub, I hit the enter key to go on and works fine from that
> point.  It just won't with this USB drive on its own.
>
> Ultimately, it would be just simpler to install Linux right on the
> original drive and go with a VM or something; I've done that many
> times before without much trouble.  But I've never done it on a
> removable USB drive like this.  I would also love to have a Portable
> Linux I could drag around and plug into any computer I walk up to
> <smile>.
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