netbook question

[Jerry Feldman]

On 03/03/2010 08:17 AM, Chris O'Connell wrote:
> Sorry, I misunderstood... yes, I am able to boot from a USB flash
> drive to install new distros as I need to.
>
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Dan Ritter <dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org
> <mailto:dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org>> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 07:42:35AM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>     > I was just asked if it were possible to dual boot a netbook. Not
>     owning
>     > of having used one I really could not answer the question asked.
>     My gut
>     > feel is that generically yes, but that the netbook would have to
>     boot
>     > from an external USB device (and since I know that is possible
>     based on
>     > installfest experience), is it possible assuming enough HD
>     storage to
>     > partition the HD (or SSD) to have both Windows 7 and Linux. (Not
>     > something that I would recommend).
>
>     Sure.
>
>     Most netbooks have 160GB hard disks. Those with smaller SSDs might
>     have space issues. All of them can boot from a USB stick, some
>     from an SD card.
>
Thanks,
Chris, your answer to me was exactly what I wanted. Basically the
question was "can a netbook dual boot".  I certainly knew that netbooks
can boot from USB media. Basically, I have not been paying much
attention to the netbooks, but we have been getting them at
installfests.  I tend to be a bit cautious on this type of question
because I have seen laptops that could only boot Windows (in the cases I
have seen this goes back to Windows 9x).

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