----- Original Message ----- From: "Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 8:41 PM Subject: Re: Two or more OS's <snip> > Futhermore newer Win versions like XP do not support DOS so double > booting with DOS GUI is not possible because there is no DOS in WinXP. > So... how would anyone with a factory installed WinXP or something like > that run Arachne? >
When a disk is partitioned e.g. with fdisk, a Master Boot Record (MBR) is written to the disk. The MBR contains a pointer to tell the BIOS where to find an operating system to boot. What a Boot Manager program does is to change this to point to a bit of code which asks the user to chose which partition/disk to boot from. I have used Ranish (which is a free Partition Manager which comes with a couple of Boot Manager program options) to allow booting of either DOS, Win98 or WinNT on a single disk. I guess it could be made to work for WinXP but suggest you take advice before trying. One of the Ranish Boot Managers is small, the code fits within the MBR. The other option which I haven't used needs an additional small partition to hold the code BTW Ranish Partition Manager can be used to copy whole partitions or whole disks. I do this for disk to disk backup. John --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.422 / Virus Database: 237 - Release Date: 20/11/02
