Re: Using Debian to manage a multiple OS machine

Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> writes:

 
This is probably the chicken-and-egg aspect of it. Probably the best is
having an isolated (removable or otherwise unplugged) bootable medium
ready in case it's needed.
 

All computer users should have an emergency kit. The main component
of which being a bootable utilities system. In today's world, such a
bootable emergency kit is a Live/Install USB. And most of those have
a 'writable' partition that can be filled with extra utilities on top.

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I guess the main risk with multiple boot scenarios involving Windows is
Windows wiping it out on purpose. (Or perhaps out of incompetence? I
mean, it's said not to attribute to malice...)

Once you receive Windows on your new machine, you have a choice: erase
it competely or minimise it down to almost nothing.

I tend to keep my Windows partitions after I have squeezed them down to
somewhere between 50 and 100 gigs on a multi-terabyte system. I don't know
why really, I only boot "real" Windows occasionally to run Windows Update.

On the rare occasions that I actually *use* Windows, it's a Windows 7* guest
on Linux VirtualBox so that I can run my HP multi-page scanner software.

* Windows 7 was "Peak Windows".


Jack
 
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