Felipe Leon wrote:
First of all, dual booting is booting more than one OS off the same bootable partition. Installing more than one OS to more than one partition and using a boot manager to choose the system to boot is called multibooting.
Geoffrey wrote:
Have you a resource for your defintion?
You snipped it from your reply. Here's another: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Multiboot-with-GRUB.html You'll notice the title is not >"Dualboot-with-GRUB".
I don't believe you!
You can believe whatever you choose. Maybe you need to write a "Dualboot-with-GRUB" FAQ. See how far you get getting it accepted.
The word "dual" comes from the latin word /duo/ which means TWO, 1+1.
No kidding!
If you install and boot two different operating systems on your machine (OBVIOUSLY
How is that obvious? They don't necessarily have to go in separate partitions.
in different partitions) you will have a "dual booting", if you install MORE than TWO OS (and decide to boot them), then you no longer have "dual booting" but "multi-booting", simple!
Not simple. You can have dual booting (two disparate operating systems on a single partition), and multibooting (operating systems on 2 or more partitions) on the same system at the same time, anything but simple. How does one distinguish dual from multi? Simple as reserving the word dual for single boot partition systems, as IBM did in PC antiquity.
Until you come up with credible evidence for your claim, Im afraid you will have to re-check your information sources.
I won't have to recheck anything. All you need do is read an ancient IBM OS/2 manual. My oldest one is a bit new, 1993 for version 2.1. -- "The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of governmental power." General Douglas MacArthur Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/partitioningindex.html