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Anyone have any pointers on setting up a dual boot system. Can the different systems be on separate drives or do they need to be on the same drive on different partitions? Is there a website that has any pointers? Thx -- Setting up a dual boot between 98 and 2000 is quite easy. Either have two disks,

Looking for dual booting advice
When I installed Woody, I made the linux system bootable with a floppy, which as some of you probably already know, takes forever to boot up. I want to use lilo to make my system dual bootable windows/linux at startup. Since I originally made my linux system bootable with a floppy, there is no /etc/lilo.conf file

Dual Boot Advice Needed
I want to add XP as a 2nd OS and be able to dual-boot for a while. Eventually I want to switch to XP completely and eliminate 98SE. Can I do this: 1. Use Partition Magic to create 3 new partitions (mirroring my current C:, D:, E: -- I have plenty of free space to do this.) 2. Install XP on the "new" C:,

Bug#466713: Lenny SATA RAID Dual Boot Installation Report
The primary boot partition (and any logical partitions) you wish DOS and 98 to read /must/ be FAT32 formatted. 3] Why does BootMagic come with PartitionMagic if I don't need it? Because some people might (if they were dual booting a system that didn't have its own bootloader) 4] Will everything (like McAfee) have

advice about editing boot.ini
Specifically, I need some advice/suggestions on which product to go with. Redhat? I heard V7 is going to pose some compatability probs initially...is that going to be a bad thing long-term? In my reality, I have had few problems getting dual boot systems to work; but I don't like dual boot systems whatsoever.

Dual-boot advice needed.
Any sugguestions how to configure a dual boot system? Well, you cannot willy-nilly make any particular logical drive a specific drive letter. Whatever drive you boot on is letter C and the rest change as the BIOS and "conventions" dictate (talk to hitler, FDR, etc). In any event, Partition Magic will help you

Need Lilo Configuration Advice for Dual Boot Setup
With my goal as dual boot, and preferring to use ntloader, my questions include: Q1>I gather I cannot use any NTFS drive for linux, is this correct? Linux does not handle NTFS very well. I don't know why, possibly something to do with the Microsoft/Linux relationship, possibly not. Anyway, the only available

need advice on dual boot: win2K and win98
Hi I have experimented with XP on my dual boot systemand have decided to go back to my faithfull friend WK2. My system was dual boot WK2 before and I want to keep 98 for some hardware reasons. I have an entry in the start-up menu for XP (which incidentally has not worked since I put WK2 back on (in a different

advice on second hard drive and dual boot...
I'm reasonably happy with the way the system works, performance and stability even though running two separate video cards (instead of a "dual-head" card), multiple joysticks, scanner, tablet (system runs a cad program sometimes...company...work) and webcam. I've never actually installed any kind of "dual-boot"

Need advice to remove win98
Therefore I am thinking of making it a dual boot system (W98/NT). Any problems with this? Currently I am only using 8GB of the 27GB available so space isn'ta problem. I understand that W98 uses a different file system( FAT32) from NT so I'll have to repartition part of the drive? Any guides/advice on how to do this

Need advice prior to format & dual boot install
Lars Friedrich lars.friedr...@generalmail.net alt comp periphs mainboard asus Jay Anderson wrote: Anyone see a way to get dual boot without changing bios options? What does the PnP setting do? It determines if an operating system is allowed to change the interrupt settings of the Bios. Conclusion: What happens if

Dual Boot Advice please
Have been dual booting 4 a while now. Rite now I ve got a dual XP system boot now. My Question is should i continue a dual boot xp or is it safe to use one TIA I'd stick with the dual boot arrangement. Keep the music OS separate from internet access and other general activities so that it will remain clean and

Dual Boot XP & Wijn98, raid problem, advice?
(I understand they will NOT support the dual boot configuration.) Don't buy the drive from Dell. The support in this case (imo) is not that meaningful compared to the cost savings in buying the drive. 3. Would a second physical drive minimize complications for dual boot (better yet, avoid a wipe out of hard disk)?

EMS memory
Knight37 knight...@email.com comp sys ibm pc games adventure "Cassie" <castali...@NOSPAMyahoo.com> once tried to test me with: I'm putting in a new hdd and want to partition it and have a dual boot. I understand that the first OS to install is the lower system and the second would be XP.

REQ: ME to XP/Partitioning Advice
Paul Morgan paul...@earthlink.net linux debian user On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 13:06:38 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: I want to dual boot an i686 machine with Debian Sarge and Windoze. My situation is somewhat special, so the directions that I find when I google the topic do not really apply IMHO. The i686 computer already

Dual boot advice, eg add XP
Kevin Nathan knat...@project54.com alt os linux suse On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:46:02 GMT TokaMundo <TokaMu...@weedizgood.org> wrote: and a boot manager called XOSL (eXtended Operating System Loader)(google it) I used to use XOSL, too, and really liked it. It's great for multi- booting. But don't really need it anymore

DUAL BOOT ADVICE
... so naturally I am hesitant, but the process sounds right. No "fdisk /mbr" will be needed after all? No, the /mbr switch restores a default master boot record but LILO will remain next in control of directing the boot process. sys c: places the Win9x boot files io.sys and msdos.sys in control of the boot. Lee.

Dual-boot advice please
... enabling a user to select which installation to boot. The question being: can the same version of windows xp be installed on one partition then installed on another? or can this only be done with earlier versions of windows to create a dual boot system. Appreciate any help and advice Mark.

advice on second hard drive and dual boot...
Michael mitch...@image-link.com microsoft public win2000 setup microsoft public win98 setup You didn't read my post "Dual Boot Loop"? -- Good Luck! I have Win2k on disk 2, installed win98 (over) win95 in disk one. It was all FAT16, I converted to FAT32 after the install. Each will 'work'.....but not both,

Need advice on setting up a dual boot vista / xp?
When I install XP from the CD, will it format the partition I choose, and set up dual boot? Yes. I may format the partition with WIN 98's dos command, so I can force the allocation unit size larger. I don't want 4k blocks with a 30 G partition, but will opt for 16 or 32 blocks for better efficiency (don't mind the