heh, never said *I* would do it... :) just saying that you can boot more than one windows OS on a drive. Last time I did anything like that, I used a removable hard drive bay for my primary drive. :) MUCH safer that way. Shutdown, swap drive trays, boot, it's like having a whole new machine, only you can't run them all at once like virtualization which is coming... weee!
On 4/7/06, Rodney Radford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wouldn't try installing two versions of Windows on the same drive. Even if > you can make sure the Windows specific files are in two locations (as you > describe below), you would probably pull your hair out trying to determine > which apps or data on the same drive goes with which version of Windows (even > if the executables can be run on both versions, the registry data will > probably only be available and/or correct on one). That is why I typically > set up different partitions for each, installing the apps as needed for each, > with a different 'share' drive across the different versions of Windows, > Linux, etc. > > However, if you really have to use multiple versions, it will definitely be a > bit of a pain regardless of how you do it... > > -----Original Message----- > >From: David McDowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Apr 7, 2006 1:21 PM > >To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <[email protected]> > >Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Linux and WinXP on same drive > > > >uh oh, the PR man just got trumped... ;) yeah Xen! I'm ready for this one. > > > >I've dual booted XP and linux on same drive, on 2 different drives, > >etc, installing win first is easiest, but you can get lilo or grub > >back. W2k and XP can both run on the same C: drive... if you have w2k > >installed to c:\winnt, then winXP might be installed to c:\windows ... > >either way, I wouldn't do it... and to go back to win98 also, well, > >you might need that partition magic and even then... *shudder*. I've > >done XP and Ubuntu successfully on a T42, both hibernated so swapping > >and loading up an OS was EASY, except Ubuntu's un-hibernate takes just > >about as long as a fresh boot... I'm sure this will be improved upon > >though. :) :) > > > >laters, > >David > > > >On 4/7/06, Cristobal Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Considered trying Xen [0], Qemu [1] or (avast! a proprietary product! > >> arrrrrgh) VMware [2]? > >> > >> Maybe one day the hardware [3] for running an unmodified windows vm in > >> xen will be cheap.... What am I saying? Maybe one day windows will be > >> irrelevant. > >> > >> If nothing else, (not having to reboot)++ > >> > >> Please note that our meeting next week is on Xen. Come on down and > >> learn something, eh? > >> > >> -CMP > >> > >> [0] http://www.xensource.com/products/downloads/ > >> [1] http://www.qemu.com/about.html > >> [2] http://www.vmware.com/products/ws/ > >> [3] http://www.xensource.com/news/pr082305.html > >> > >> On 4/7/06, T. Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > On Friday 07 April 2006 00:09, Rodney Radford wrote: > >> > > If I remember the details correctly, you want WinXP and Linux on one > >> > > physical drive (in different partitions), and Win98 on a second > >> > > physical > >> > > drive. If that is correct, yes, you should be able to do that with > >> > > grub. > >> > > >> > You can also let the Windows XP boot loader kick things off, can't you? > >> > > >> > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+NT-Loader.html > >> > > >> > That's how I have been letting Windows and Linux share the same drive > >> > lately. > >> > And I'd hope that the WinXP boot loader would be able to handle the > >> > multi-boot between WinXP and Win98 well, but I've never done that. > >> > Windows...bleh. > >> > > >> > ---Tom > >> > > >> > -- > >> > TriLUG mailing list : > >> > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > >> > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > >> > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > >> > > >> > >> > >> -- > >> > >> Cristobal M. Palmer > >> UNC-CH SILS Student > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> ils.unc.edu/~cmpalmer > >> "Television-free since 2003" > >> > >> -- > >> TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > >> TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > >> TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > >> > >> > >-- > >TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > >TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > >TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
