general knoppix questions, new user
new to linux..
i checked it out after burning the iso, liked what i saw and chose the "install from CD" option.. can't remember the details of what i did after that..
IDEALLY.. i would like to keep windows as my default-booting OS, however i would like to install knoppix to my hard drive, so i can boot from my hard drive without the CD.. does it require a hard drive partition, and if i partition, will i still be able to boot windows?
what is "dual boot"?
thanks for reading
Re: general knoppix questions, new user
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Originally Posted by ishaim
what is "dual boot"?
It is a way to boot two, or more, operating systems. It does not imply that the two, or more, operating systems be of two, or more, differing Manufacturers. i.e. you could dual boot a MS Windows 98, XP, and 2000, or differing operating systems, like, MS Windows XP, Mandrake, and Knoppix...
The process uses a "boot loader", that lets you decide which OS you want to boot, move the files to where then can be booted, or "point" to the location to be booted, and let the boot process for that selection take over... One of the same ( principle ideas ) of this is when you select "boot to DOS prompt" or "boot to Windows" from a menu in MS Windows. In this case, though, Windows simply copies boot files from a default location to the root of the boot drive, and lets the OS take it from there.
Examples, of what I know of, boot loaders are, LILO and GRUB, these being from the Linux side...
What a boot loader does, first, is give you the options of booting more than one operating system, and two, inserting the boot loader program inbetween the boot process - usually the boot process involves the BIOS to the Master Boot Record. With a boot loader, it changes from that to this: BIOS to Boot Loader to (whatever boot selection you made)
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Originally Posted by ishaim
thanks for reading
No problem...
Glad I could (hopefully) help,
Ms. Cuddles