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[ In reference to "A Beginner's Guide to Dual Booting Linux Mint and Windows XP" in LG#136 ]

Joe Dearman [joesauldearman at hotmail.com]

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:47:30 +0000

Hello there, I've just read an article titled A Beginner's Guide to Dual Booting Linux Mint and Windows XP. I'm interested in giving Linux mint a whirl, without deleting windows XP, so this article sounds good to me, but I have one question. Assuming I successfully install Linux mint in a new partition, what will I see each time I boot my computer? i.e. will there be a screen each time asking whether I want to boot up in Linux or windows, or will I have to change settings in order to set which OS boots up?

JSD

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Martin J Hooper [martinjh at blueyonder.co.uk]

Sat, 17 Mar 2007 05:55:12 +0000

Joe Dearman wrote:

    > Hello there,
    > I've just read an article titled A Beginner's Guide to Dual Booting Linux
    > Mint and Windows XP.
    > I'm interested in giving Linux mint a whirl, without deleting windows XP, so
    > this article sounds good to me, but I have one question.
    > Assuming I successfully install Linux mint in a new partition, what will I
    > see each time I boot my computer? i.e. will there be a screen each time
    > asking whether I want to boot up in Linux or windows, or will I have to
    > change settings in order to set which OS boots up?

If everything goes right you will get a menu - usually with a default setting that runs after a certain amount of time passes.

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