Le 10.11.2013 19:06, Jeff Bauer a écrit :
On 11/10/2013 12:52 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:On Sun, 2013-11-10 at 12:44 -0500, Jeff Bauer wrote:On 11/10/2013 10:40 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:Burn, test drive, and used a live CD distribution for a minimum of a month and learn all you can about it. Then try some others. Repeat asOn Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 08:17:06AM -0700, thomas aylward wrote:how does a novice begin with debian? TomHow does a novice begin with Linux -necessary until you find a distro worthy of installing.Simply start with one distro and after a while install two otherdistros to the same machine, if the chosen distro shouldn't fit to yourneeds.Advising a novice at Linux to build and configure a multi-boot, multi-OS machine?
Multi boots are usually made by beginners to keep windows aside linux, which never works, because people will always tend to use the system they know the most and/or on which they can do the most things. And for beginners, that system is clearly not a linux based OS, but Windows. And if examples are needed: games, CAO, and even simple drawing are easier and less restricted on Windows. So, I agree with you, advising them to do a multi-boot is not the right thing to do.
/But/ it was never said in previous message. Plus, linux beginners are not necessarily ignorants of computer sciences. I was not. And finally, since Grub is the most commonly installed boot loader, setting up a multi-boot do not imply to configure anything. At least, with Debian, it is made automatically.