Ubuntu Desktop Snelstartgids: Booten

[Rob Hofschreuder]

Met belangstelling heb ik de commentaren op de Ubuntu Desktop
Snelstartgids gelezen.
Een uitgebreide discussie over de pro's en contra's van LINUX- en 
WINDOWS-systemen is gepubliceerd in de C-Net Newsletter van 09-02-2007 
(newsletters op cnet.online.com). Hieruit wil ik een stukje over het booten 
onder jullie aandacht brengen, wat voor enigen een oplossing kan zijn 
bij boot problemen.

/OK, enough about distributions. One decision you do need to make is how
to install it on your system. If your hard disk is big enough, I'd
recommend partitioning it and running a dual boot system. Linux doesn't
boot directly but rather uses a boot loader, LILO and Grub are two
common ones. When you install a Linux system it will ask you where you
want to put the boot loader. While you are evaluating Linux to see
whether it's for you, you might want to use the technique I used when I
first tried it. If your machine has a bootable floppy disk drive,
install the boot loader on to it and your Linux system on your hard disk
partition. Then when you want to boot Linux, boot off the floppy - it
will offer the option to boot Windows as well - but when you want to
boot Windows, just boot from the hard disk. The advantage is that if you
decide Linux isn't for you, you can just delete your Linux partition and
throw the floppy away. If you decide to keep it, you can re-install the
boot loader on your hard disk, when it will offer you the choice of
booting any of the systems it detects.
/

Of dit werkt? Ik heb het niet geprobeerd!

Groeten,

Rob Hofschreuder