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[artsown]

I had posted in the Beginners section about a web page I put up on the
subject of multi-booting. Since the page is actually a "how to" I thought
I'd post the url here too as well. The page has been updated with Notes and
a section on booting USB drive on old machines lacking provision for this.
Here's the url: http://home.ptd.net/~artnpeg/

Art

[darkcity]

great stuff

added link to wiki
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/InstallationIndex

does this work for Vista and Win 7 too?

[artsown]

Thanks darkcity. I have nothing newer than Win XP here to test on.

Art

[rcrsn51]

[darkcity]

Thanks for the replies, I've updated the wiki link to reflect the Windows version

[8-bit]

In my case, I have EasyBCD installed on Windows Vista (I assume Windows 7 would be similar).
I then have Puppy frugal installs with grub on a second hard drive and on booting, I get a selection from the first boot menu of Windows or Linux.
Then if I select Linux, grub with menu boots from the second hard drive and I select a frugal install of Puppy from the grub menu.
I have never been brave enough to try grub-for-dos as I would not want to have to reinstall windows to recover if the mbr of the first drive failed to boot windows.
And EasyBCD is well documented as to how to install a second or more OS without loosing access to booting windows.

[nooby]