Hi, Installing multiple operating systems is not a harm as long your system has enough resources. The trouble creeps up when a visually challenged person has to select one from the list of installed ones on the system at the time of booting up as no voice clues are available. This list appears for 30 seconds on screen and then proceeds to load the one selected by default if there is no user interaction. Some calculation of time taken for the list to appear with sighted help initially may help. The good thing about this list is that it selects the most recently installed one by default - not sure but I think it appears at the bottom of the list. Pressing arrow keys helps you change the selection. It loads the one that you press ENTER on.
I had installed 3 versions of Windows 2000 (Professional, Server and Advanced Server) on my system years back. I edited the C:\boot.ini file to change the order of items in the list, the default and timeout in seconds. Editing this file is advisable only if you are sure of what you are changing in it. Also the newer operating systems may have a different way of handling multiple operating systems at boot time, I haven't explored them yet. On 11/19/11, austin pinto <[email protected]> wrote: > hi all. > Was just wondering lets say if i install win7 in c drive and win 8 in > d drive i have some questions. > 1. when my system boots up how will i come to know when the select an > os or partation to boot from diolog appears?. > 2 if there are no answers to q1 do u think that i must install deual > os on my system? > 3 what are other ways by which i can run 2 os on my system > > -- > austin pinto > email [email protected] > alternat email [email protected] > facebook www.facebook.com/austinpinto.xaviers > orkut www.orkut.com/austinpinto.xaviers > twitter www.twitter.com/austinmpinto > > join me on google + > surch for +austin > > Register for AccessIndia convention 2011(November 12-13) at: > http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm > > Search for old postings at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe send a message to > [email protected] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > -- Best Regards, Zujar... An optimist laughs to forget, whereas a pessimist forgets to laugh! Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
