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Dual Boot OS X & OS 8.5
My system is a 1.3GHz Pentium 4, GeForce 2 GTS 32MB, 768MB of RAM, 60G HD, Soundblaster Live, Logitech Wingman, CH Pro Pedals; running Windows Me. GPL had been working perfectly on this system, and then suddenly began to display this symptom. I had installed Win2k as a dual-boot OS, and installed the new 12.41

File saving over network
Johan W. Elzenga nom...@please.thanks comp sys mac hardware misc La Paloma <drm...@iastate.edu> wrote: Is is impossible to install OS X (10.2.3) and OS 8.5 on separate partitions of the HD and retain the ability to boot from either system? I have a Wall Street G3 series PowerBook with a 48 GB HD, onto which I've

Dual boot Win2K w/ 2 hard drives
MTV Gary White wrote: Without separate C: partitions it is difficult, that is what most Boot Managers do, hide one while the other is "active". Then when I moved it to "Slave" and put old HD w/Win95 as "Primary" can't get Win98 to boot, although it shows up as Bootable in Boot Manger.

Windows 2000/Windows 98 Dual Boot - 1 HD w/C: as NTFS
Now, each HD houses the swap facility of the resident OS. What if I were to swap the swaps, ie to put - the Win&^% swapfile on a FAT32 on the Linux HD, and dual boot but also use VMWare to access the "other" OS from the one that was booted - then you need two separate swap areas at all times) richard TIA o'

Adding 2nd HD for audio
COM comp unix sco misc Stephen M. Dunn wrote: Short of backup, fresh install, restore, and try to meld it all back together so that anything you've customized remains customized, is there a way of adding a separate boot filesystem after the fact? Assume that I've been wise or fortunate enough to have 15 MB or more

Install new HD drv on Dual boot
3COM 10/100 Network Card Gravis GamePad Pro CH Fightstick Win98SE/DOS Dual boot (I may even add another HD and test out linux on this at some point since it has good hardware for it.) Then I got to thinking, if I have a separate computer just for all that, I now have to option to upgrade this system to Win2000

dual boot 98/XP
I intend to : Erase HD (should I use DOS fdisk or format to do this?). Install RH6.2 w/ ~10GB Re-install win98 (will it have trouble w/ cylinder > 1024?) Re-boot from 'emergency disk' and re-run lilo to recover dual-boot. Does anyone see why this will not work before I give it a whirl? I'll wait for some comments

What if separate HD w/ swap partition fails?
I was hoping that by using two primary partitions that they would stay separate, booting to whichever partition was active (the way it SHOULD work), but Microsoft insists on To set up a dual boot you install the older OS to the C: partition, as you did and then while in that partition begin to install XP.

Can't install on HD w/ win98 installed.. please help
malkz m...@malc1.demon.co.uk alt steinberg cubase my freind set up System commander on my machine to dual boot into 2 win98's, 1 for music, the other for the for Cubase/other audio apps, either as a separate partition or on a completely separate HD, in order to keep that OS as clean as possible for audio use.

Dual boot of two versions of Linux, partition?
NT RULES!!!! and you are correct about having to repartition. another choice would be to use a separate partition for NT and have a dual-boot system Ivan W. Halperin wrote in message <36f86db2.105614...@news.flashcom.com>... Has anyone changed their Aptiva from W98 to WNT? I've a 2139-SE7 which I use for

Juggling partions?
RAH "Steve W." <removewri...@talon.net> wrote in message news:eMiKtqn#$GA.296@cppssbbsa04... I currently am running Win98 SE and I'm want to dual-boot with NT 4. I was creating a new NTFS partition for NT with Partition Magic and it gave me the option to make it a primary or extended one. Can a HD have more than

Dual Boot Again
Ross "Ed H" <w.what...@comcast.net> wrote in message news:edepdIOSEHA. 1...@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl... Reading instructions for a dual-boot system. KBA says that 'each OS must be installed on a separate volume.' I was going to use Partition Magic which would make both OS's be on C: drive, one is always hidden.

Boot Disk
I intend to dual-boot between W95 & NT 4.0, but will work primarily work in NT. I understand that performance is enhanced when OS, app, swap and data files are kept on separate physical HDs. However, I'm not sure which files should go on which HDs. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I should do this and

FDISK won't do it...any other way?
Simply extract the disk manager program to a blank floppy, and boot up to it, and the program will automatically recognize all of your HD's installed. 1998 14:18:06 GMT, l...@pobox.com wrote: My advice would be to pick up a copy of PartitionMagic and install and maintain each OS in its own separate partition.

Hardware Compatibility with Sony PCV-90 and v8.1
I don't know how it reacts to being on a slave drive though as I've only got a single HD. -Alex AFAIK, Windows _is_ fine booting off a partition when LILO is in the master boot record of the same hard drive. However, when Windows is on a separate drive from LILO, the Windows bootloader is resident in the MBR on the

Better performance: Vista w/4gb RAM or XP w/3GB RAM
Are there any known issues with installing a second instance of XP to an external USB HD? I have found nothing in the discussions that would lead me to believe otherwise, but I still get a check disk error on the external drive during installation. I have looked at every post I could find on dual boot procedures

Dual boot from separate drives
Walter Clayton w-clayto...@SPmvpsAM.org microsoft public windowsxp setup_deployment The only option for pulling the Win2K drive is to reinstall XP clean from scratch. I have a dual-boot system; W2K (C-drive) & XP(D-drive); on separate disks. I would like to remove my W2K disk and use XP only. Boot.ini is on C:.

2x Windows XP on one HDD!!!
1 thing that, if anyone could answer in a nutshell it would be great, what do you go to to run the two separate OS's? Andy During the install of Linux it will ask you if you want to setup LiLo that is the dual boot manager it will see windoze 98 on your system and set up the dual boot. After rebooting you will

Partitions
Boot Manager-separate partitions, one FAT32 and the other NTFS if desired. Major problem is having apps installed in each partition. How big is your HD? What large apps are to be installed in both? -- Gary White Michigan, USA mailto:gar...@usa.net mailto:garywhite1...@worldnet.att.net ICQ Pager:

Windows NT Workstation 4.0 & Windows 98?
When I had a dual boot setup, I had 1.3 on and OFS (old file system) hard-drive, and 2.1 on an FFS (fast file system) hard-drive. 1.3 is not supposed to be able to read FFS drives, and unless you formated your hard-drive in OFS, 1.3 shouldn't be able to boot at all. I would suggest separate boot partitions for each