Best directions for dual-booting with Vista?

[D. R. Evans]

Derek Broughton said the following at 03/27/2008 12:35 PM :
> D. R. Evans wrote:
> 
>>> Me too, me too (I absolutely refuse to post just to say "Me too").
>> The problem with any virtualization solution (apart from the issue of a
>> possible inability to access hardware, which probably is unlikely to
>> affect me) is that I would have to use the pre-installed Vista as the host
>> OS. Right there, that's enough for me not to consider it any more.
> 
> Actually, probably no.  If you have to use a pre-installed OS, it's probably
> an OEM version and can't be run in a virtual machine.
>  

Isn't that what I said? I would have to use the pre-installed OS as the
host OS. So I can't use it as the guest.

> 
> It's never that hard - and never was, imo, and I've been dual-booting since

Well, let's just agree to disagree on that.


> the 90s.  Repartitioning could be awkward if you wanted to save an existing
> Windows, but for a clean install it's:

I never was permitted to do a clean install. (I was in a corpoate environment.)


> Even when I installed Corel Linux 1.0, it was able to detect a Windows
> partition and install LILO with the correct options.  Your option (5) above
> indicates you were using the NT boot loader, which is just asking for

I was. I had no choice.

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