Linux Notes: Penguin Party, Windows Can Come, Too

“What follows is my experience. It relies heavily on how-tos by
Bart Whiteley and Holly Bostick among others. Perhaps I’m a little
past the newbie stage to attempt this, but not by much. This is why
I felt a need to offer these notes both for myself and anyone else
considering it. I don’t say much about dual-booting Windows and
Linux. That’s fairly easy and there are many guides on the subject.
What is less common and what I wanted was to have more than one
Linux distribution or more than one version of the same
distribution–e.g., Suse 9.3 and Suse 10.1 or Ubuntu 6.06 (64bit)
and Ubuntu 6.06 (32bit), or all of these, or all of these plus
Windows XP. Large hard drives make this practical. Furthermore, I
wanted to have personal data accessible from at least all the Linux
distros and maybe some of it also from the Windows OS. Although
Windows would, for practical reasons, be installed first, I didn’t
want the order in which I installed Linux distros to matter, since
I might be swapping these in and out often and
unpredictably…”

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