Dual Boot System

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Sep 1 15:07:25 UTC 2004


monkeyb at onlink.net wrote:
>   Is it possible for me to run a dual boot system but to have to insert a floppy to boot Fedora? My parents just want to be able to turn on the computer and have it boot Windows and not have to select anything. I don't mind inserting a floppy disk to boot Fedora. I'd have Fedora Core installed on a seperate hard drive but I'd want to be able to boot it only by using a floppy.
>   If this is not possible would it be possible to install it on a removable USB hard drive and plug in the drive and boot from the drive only when I use the computer?

Why not just set Windows as the default OS in your grub.conf and use a timeout 
of a few seconds so that Windows is booted unless you explicitly (and quickly) 
choose Linux?

Paul.





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