>From: michael hast <evylrobot19@cox.net>
>Reply-To: slug@nks.net
>To: slug@nks.net
>Subject: [SLUG] dual boot
>Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:42:58 -0600
>
>Hey, everybody!
>
> Last night, I completed my first dual-boot installation! When I had
>asked about it before, the answer has basically been, oh, it's easy. Well,
>I'm here to tell you that the first time setting up a dual-boot XP/Debian
>is not easy. It will be a whole lot easier next time, that's for sure!
>This computer that I worked on all day yesterday is my brother's. He needs
>some M$ Office stuff, but still wants Linux. So, I decided to just figure
>out how to do it. One thing that I have noticed, though, is that I cannot
>see one filesystem with the other one. This concerns me since that was
>part of the point of setting it up as a dual-boot is so that he could play
>with documents on either side of the coin and still save them in the same
>place. How do I do this? Am I destine to reinstall again, or can I simply
>slip another carefully formatted partition in somewhere? Any and all help
>welcome. Thank you!
>
>--
>--Michael Hast (the evyl robot)
>I'm not picking my nose. I'm pulling things out of it.
>
When setting up a dual boot environment it's best to install Windows first.
For sharing documents between Windows & Linux, create a FAT32 filesystem
that can be accessed from both. You can use either the Windows bootloader or
grub on the MBR. Using the Windows bootloader is a little more complicated
to set up but will make it easier if one wants to ditch Linux but leave
Windows at a later point in time.
-Jonathon
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