Linux on an AMD64 box...

[James Knott]

William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:25:12AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 09:56:59AM -0400, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
>>> explained dual booting and virtualization as a couple of choices, and
>>> she's decided that she wants to dual boot.  
>> Most people I know eventually find dual booting a pain because you have
>> to stop everything you are doing and switch.  You often end up only
> 
> I know this, and I explained it to my wife, but doesn't think it'll be a
> big deal.  We might know better, but nothing teaches like experience.  I
> can install VMWare later, if she decides that that is what she needs.
>

What you may want to do, is create a FAT32 partition and move the "My
Documents" folder to it.  This will make it easier for her to move
documents between the 2 systems.
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