Dual booting is a software solution wherein two or more operating systems available for booting a computer. The selection is made early in the systems bootup by having the user choose from options presented by GRUB, Lilo, XOSL, BootMagic, or a host of other SOFTWARE solutions. What the OP was looking for was a hardware solution to the problem. With a purely hardware solution, there is no danger of one operating system stepping on another. Indeed, neither operating system would be able to see the partitions of the other. Such a hardware solution exists today: http://www.tweakhound.com/reviews/drives/trios2/ -Briber
Interesting that you should say that you stared at the screen for 5 minutes the first time you used Win95. That behavior was exhibited by testers and is EXACTLY why Microsoft added the start menu late in Win95's development.
You see, Microsoft had bought into the fad of "document centric" computing. Applications were out. File types were in.
What you were supposed when you encountered your brand spankin' new Win95 desktop (a COMPLETELY BLANK desktop) was create a new document or create a shortcut to an application that did not produce documents.
Here is a typical scenario:
Right click on the desktop, select new->folder
Name the folder Anderson Account info (or what ever you want).
Now open the folder you just created.
Right click and select new->Excel spreadsheet.
Name the new spreadsheet Anderson_Q1.
Double click on your new spreadsheet shortcut and voila... here comes MS Excel.
Folders first->then shortcuts->then finally your application.
The tester just stared at the screens too. Document centric computing was not to be and so MS cobbled together the start menu we have today.
Allright, I'll bite.
Suppose you want to show off some of the neat features of Linux to some friends in a college computer lab.
In my opinion, one of the most compelling features is intelligent package management. You show this feature off by opening a terminal window and running APT or by launching Synaptic. Then you select the package you want to install, and then... Oh, that's right, YOU booted off a CD. Sorry!
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Dual booting is a software solution wherein two or more operating systems available for booting a computer. The selection is made early in the systems bootup by having the user choose from options presented by GRUB, Lilo, XOSL, BootMagic, or a host of other SOFTWARE solutions.
What the OP was looking for was a hardware solution to the problem. With a purely hardware solution, there is no danger of one operating system stepping on another. Indeed, neither operating system would be able to see the partitions of the other.
Such a hardware solution exists today: http://www.tweakhound.com/reviews/drives/trios2/
-Briber
You see, Microsoft had bought into the fad of "document centric" computing. Applications were out. File types were in.
What you were supposed when you encountered your brand spankin' new Win95 desktop (a COMPLETELY BLANK desktop) was create a new document or create a shortcut to an application that did not produce documents.
Here is a typical scenario:
Right click on the desktop, select new->folder
Name the folder Anderson Account info (or what ever you want).
Now open the folder you just created.
Right click and select new->Excel spreadsheet.
Name the new spreadsheet Anderson_Q1.
Double click on your new spreadsheet shortcut and voila... here comes MS Excel.
Folders first->then shortcuts->then finally your application.
The tester just stared at the screens too. Document centric computing was not to be and so MS cobbled together the start menu we have today.
Best Regards -Briber
Allright, I'll bite. Suppose you want to show off some of the neat features of Linux to some friends in a college computer lab. In my opinion, one of the most compelling features is intelligent package management. You show this feature off by opening a terminal window and running APT or by launching Synaptic. Then you select the package you want to install, and then... Oh, that's right, YOU booted off a CD. Sorry!