Warning!! Windoze and Linux haters should skip this mail as it may contain objectionable material!!
Some people will consider it blatantly out of order, but considering the trouble Ive saved myself I cant resist passing it on to the one or two who may find it of some use. Qdos-lovers will agree that Windoze makes an excellent platform for our favourite OS. Windoze users may agree with me that Win2000 is the stablest and ablest M$ OS yet (W98SE also deserves an honourable mention). With M$ getting greedier and more arrogant by the day, I fear these will be my last Windoze upgrades. After this it has got to be Linux to save the planet! QPC3 is state of the art as far as Qdos/Smsqe goes, but uQLx, offering an "Open" solution, may one day catch up, especially if the number of users increase as the enlightened abandon M$ in droves. I have always wanted to have all three OSes to hand; Qdos, Windoze and Linux. This is not a problem. It is easy enough to set up a PC to dual boot W9x and Linux, but it is not entirely straightforward with W2k/Linux as W2k wants to rule the roost by itself (one always assumed). Not only that but W2k is not always able to run older programs or hardware so it is sometimes necessary to have both W2k and W98. Suggestions I found on the internet to create a triple boot arrangement are quite involved and not all are equally satisfactory. However, in the end I decided to take a risk and that turned out to work surprisingly well, and best of all is quite simple to achieve: 1) Install W98 2) The easiest is now to run something like PartitionMagic and create all the partitions required 3) Install Linux (default RedHat installation with lilo, the boot loader) 4) Install W2k as a dual boot with W98 Thats it! On a fast machine the basic install takes just three hours if all goes to plan. Contrary to dire warnings that W2k overwrites the MBR and generally makes a nuisance of itself, it actually leaves lilo alone. When booting, lilo offers linux or dos. If you choose dos you get to the W2k boot loader so you then can choose between W2k and W98 (at this point is would be possible to add the boot menu to W98 to boot into Msdos or W31x or QPC1 or QXL, if you insist ;) Youre now ready to configure your systems and install the required QL emulators. Name and address withheld
