Installing Linux Dual Boot With Windows OS
Dual boot of Linux is as easy as it can be when your hard drive and its partitions, and how the various OS sees and recognizes it and displays it for you to understand to see. It is very easy on the partition table on a Windows computer find everything you need to do is to simply double-click the My Computer icon. You can also check the partition table by right-clicking on My Computer and click Manage and then Disk Management.
Now, how Linux identifies and names your guests it will be important
For IDE disks, Linux recognizes the discs with the name
hd (x)
Linux supports SCSI hard disks with the name
sd (x)
Where letter x several disks for example, if you have two IDE hard disks on your Linux computer will detect the first as hda and hdb as the second. And if you have three SCSI disks on your system, it will be recognized as sda, sdb and sdc. Read the rest of this entry »

