if you install windows first then linux usually detects it and sets up its own multiboot environment - that's the case for Red Hat Linux 9 in any case. Admittedly it calls it DOS, but it's easy enough to rename...

Most people don't realize this, but Microsoft even produces a program that does this: Virtual PC. It's got most of the features that VMware has, it's just that the locations of the options are different (of course!).

I do the same thing with VMware-- I have a 2003 server setup, and I do all of my domain testing with it, sandboxed from my regular domain.

Hi, I've a computer with 2 hard drives: the main one, and the other one is a built-in backup, so I may completely restore my computer to it's initial state. My question is, if I added another hard drive to my computer, installed Ubuntu or Linux into it, and then performed a backup willing to restore my windows drive (only the windows drive); would it also affect the ubuntu/linux drive?

NOTE: I'm using Windows XP, and when say restore, I mean that I click F11 when the system boots, and I choose the destructive restore option.

Thanks in advance

quick answer is no ,unless you direct the restore to the wrong drive, when asked !!!

Thanks!, I think I will be enjoying both Windows and Ubuntu in a short while....

hi, what i suggest is what i do, i have live linux on cd and dvd ,don't install on harddrive just runs fro mthe cd and your ram .
i use this one, http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html , plus i have Puppy Linux and one other that i just got but forget the name , Puppy Linux is neat for the novice ,and i have it on multisesion dvd and cd disks,done that a few years ago . ,where it will actually write back to the dvd/cd anything i do when using it ,like addedd favorites or things i download.have to admit though i rarely use linux ,just to trouble shhot a non working windos OS
http://www.puppylinux.org/