Fw: Dual Booting -Toggle between O/Systems

[Gregory Storer]

Dave,

I don't know about an easy way to change between windows and linux via
some type of key-stroke.  I think you'd have to shut windows down and
reboot into ubuntu.

In my own experience, I bought a KVM and ran two machines, one keyboard,
one mouse and one screen, but two computers. It was then easy to change
between machines and hence OS's with just two key pushes.  I found that
I was able to save documents on the windows machine in its shared
folders and access them from Ubuntu and also save them back to Windows.
Now, after 12 months, I have a dual boot machine and have not had to
access Windows XP in about two months.

I hope that helps.

Greg.

On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 06:55 +1100, The Wassermans wrote:
>  
>  
> The journey onto Ubuntu has begun . . . . . 
>  
> I have successfully loaded a Dual Boot on a test machine.  i.e.
> Windows and Ubuntu.  So I now know what to expect when loading DB to
> my primary machine.
>  
> The objective is to slowly migrate from Windows to Ubuntu.  I want to
> achieve is a situation where I can simply toggle between the two
> systems - depending on what application I might be working with at any
> time.  In so doing I hope to ween myself (& my wife who is not very PC
> literate) onto Ubuntu totally.  So, in my minds eye, I want to log
> onto Windows by default (so that my wife is not confronted with
> anything unusual when she logs on)  but have the ability to toggle
> into Ubuntu on the fly for my own purposes.  
>  
> Windows by default I can manage.  I would like some pointers on:
>  
>     1. How to create a toggle?
>     2. Share or access data files seamlessly between the systems?
>  
> I do have access to a couple of spare PC's so I guess there are other
> alternatives.  But, ideally I am looking for a solution where we sit
> at one terminal with one data base shared by the two systems.
>  
>     3. Is networking a better solution for me?
>     4. When installing Ubuntu, it offers to migrate existing Windows
> data "yes/no" in the process.  What happens in that case?
>  
> In gratitude,
> Dave W