Re: Finding/creating Debian documentation for an unserved audience
On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 21:42:12 -0500
David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon 23 Sep 2024 at 06:31:21 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> >
> > *A* current question is how to install a "dual-boot" or "multi-boot"
> > system. Debian users make a strong distinction between the two.
>
> I don't see any defining difference between the two terms (beyond
> obviously not using the former where there are more than two
> installations).
>
>
My *impression* is that these days, 'dual-boot' pretty much implies
taking a computer with Windows pre-installed and adding a Linux
installation to it, which varies from being a trivial job to a
decidedly non-trivial one, depending on the hardware manufacturer. I
didn't say Acer.
Multi-boot may or may not include Windows, but once one Linux
distribution is added to Windows, adding more of them is almost always
going to be trivial. Where Windows is not installed, adding extra Linux
installations is even more likely to be simple.
As it happens, I once multi-booted Windows. I had a recently-upgraded
Win95 computer, and on needing to learn NT4.0, I added NT4.0 Client and
NT4.0 Server (MS has always made a distinction between client and
server OSes) and rebuilt the original parts into a second computer with
NT4.0 Server. It was very easy to do that in the days of boot.ini, when
a boot problem could be fixed with a tomsrtbt floppy and Linux booted
from lilo.
--
Joe
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