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Re: Buying a computer for Windows and Linux

Roby <r...@no-address.net>

tom wrote:
> I recently purchased an HP computer and none of
> the HPs in the store take a second HD.  Also, booting
> from a USB port does not show up in the boot menu.
> I looked at the bios and could not figure out how to
> boot from a USB port.  The computer I bought is
> a a1730n.

> I thought I could buy a computer where I could
> run Linux without repartitioning the HD, but I guess not.

Linux will happily share the same drive with other o/s's.
I have six machines, each with one hard drive.  All are
set up to multiboot linux (2 flavors), windows and DOS
using Grub as the bootloader.  No problemo.