netbook question

[Chris O'Connell]

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> 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.
>
> -dsr-
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