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From: ray 
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
Subject: Re: More newbie dualboot. . .
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:10:41 -0700
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On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:48:33 -0600, Swampbug wrote:

> My system is setup primarily as a Windows XPPro system. I have setup Ubuntu 
> 6.10 on a separate hard drive. XP on a serial drive and Linux on an IDE 
> drive. I am manually swapping drives between the two OS' but that got old 
> quick. What is the best way from here to setup a dualboot scenario using the 
> two separate drives. I do not wish to tamper with my XP system drive yet and 
> maybe never.
> Take into account I am a Linux newbie.
> TIA

Does your system have a boot menu whereby you can select the drive to boot
from? That would seem to satisfy your criteria.
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