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Dual Boot Question
Zbigniew A. Zby...@BikeRider.com alt os linux mandrake Marc Zuverink wrote: I dual boot between Mdk and XP. Well, nobody's perfect. Right now I have two linux distros and one does not want to start by LILO from another. So both have their own LILO on own discs' MBR and I change boot sequence in BIOS.

dual boot w/ two hard drives
The simplest way I've found to dual boot between Win9x and WinXP would be to partition your drive(s) roughly as follows: C: Primary FAT32 Win9x/Games D: You needn't use the FAT32 or NTFS file systems for the two OS partitions unless you want to, but this configuration allows you to take full advantage of both

XP to go on 2nd HDD Setup/Partition ?s
Mike and Dale (et. al) I am new to this group because of a problem I am having with Dual Boot and PM (7.0). I also have been checking with PowerQuest so as information comes in I will post here to share the knowledge. Here is my situation: My system was configured with two harddrives: 1) Win98 SE and 2) WinME on

Dual Boot: WinXP & Win2000 on two Hard Drives
Could be anything unless you use a boot manager,Harry's place has some good info and he runs multi-boot systems so he's knows a lot of the pitfalls. http://newlife-win98.server101.com/ What does dual boot really mean ? It means being able to selectively choose the O/S you want to use on bootup if you have two or

Dual boot W95-DOS/W2K, W95 stop booting !
sysop newsrea...@canalbs.co.uk microsoft public windowsnt misc If you really want just a tiny boot partition you can go to 100 Mb or less but it does not If you only partition the disk for the two O/S's then run NT and from NT's Disk Manager you can create FAT 16 partitions up to 4Gb. Win 98 will happily work

Windows ME and 2000 dual boot setup?
Also...because of the different file systems (I have tons of info in book form here), in a dual boot such as these two...it is highly suggested a large hard go to the previous O/S which was XP--after selecting that option the computer would just freeze--I switched the boot option in the bios to boot from other

Fresh Install Question(s)
I am going to get a local vendor to build me a very nice P3 850MHZ, dual-40G HDDs, 512M, DVD/CDRW, 10/100 NIC, 19-in monitor, SB, 56K PCI modem system for about $400 less than Dell's best offer and no unwanted software, with W2KNT and dual boot W98se partitioning, and a very nice HP scanner thrown in as well.

Networking two pc`s? please.
Wombat dave150...@yahoo.com microsoft public windowsxp hardware well of course you can dual boot is fairly simple usually 1 I assume you are using XP home able to boot up to anyone of these o/s by changing the boot sequence.when i am in win98 and go to my computer it shows it as c drive. the other drive is d,

windows xp revisited
Colin Barnhorst colinbarha...@msn.com microsoft public windowsxp basics In order to create a dual boot scenario you should have had both hard drives installed at the same time. The system booted up from XP English and detected the 2nd HD the very first time, and I did see two XP O/S at next system bootup.

P3V4, Windows 2000, hard crash with DVD player(s)
I currently have Dual Boot set up with my 2.1GB disk partitioned as follows: C: (255MB - FAT) - contains OS/2 and used to dual boot to DOS. set a newer system's BIOS to treat large drives in the "old-fashioned" way, your IDE drive(s) will have 1024-cylinder boundaries at precisely 504MB (1MB=1048576 bytes).

How do I add BootManager and change my OS/2 boot drive from ...
SYS 26 fichier(s) 1.941.599 octets 1 R‚p(s) 1.406.763.008 octets libres ----------------------------- dir /on (command) Le volume dans le lecteur C s'appelle COINTE DOS Le num‚ro It looks like somehow Ghost overwrote Win95's two "system files" or the two files that Win2K uses to dual-boot. These are all hidden,

Dual boot again
AF9D4...@myhome.computer: Menno Hershberger wrote: I dual boot 98 and XP. All of a sudden I can't print anything in 98. No matter what printer I pick. I have two printers, one of which is a netwrok printer (HP 722C) and a Panasonic KX-P2123 dor matrix. Plus there's acrobat and fax on the list.

dual boot with two hard drives
You´ll need at least Win95osr2.0 or higher or Win98 or WinME V. Find files (values forWin95+98) on C:\-root: Io.sys and Msdos.sys and copy them to an empty FD - this will be Your´s Boot2ndOS disk /just for case, make two of them!-you never be shure!/ Take out the FD from a drive. You can't just copy the system

disk partition questions.
Extended 6G with two logical drives(2 and 4). Will I be able to use that 2G partition for swap in linux. 2. Should I use fdisk on the 250G disk to make the Appreciate all your help. thanks I can ses Linux and NT based O/S(s), Win 9'x or ME and NT based O/S(s), but a dual boot Win 2K and XP NT based O/S(s)?

Using two cards to run one monitor on a dual boot PC
It will boot from either drive, if it is jumpered as master, but I can't get it to dual boot with the xp drive as master and the me drive as slave Three "it"s in one sentence, and not all of them refering to the same precedent. Caryminny, you make it hard to help you. I'll assume you meant this - "Either OS will be

How to Install Dual Boot of Two Linux
It wouldn't offer the dual boot option, presumably (although C: is obviously bootable right now, and would be even after a format, in preparation for XP). No, wait a minute. I could just do a format w/o the /s switch, and it wouldn't be bootable. Gary S. Terhune wrote: No, there's no choice, and no, you don't have

Slightly OT-Best Choice O/S
How can I configure my GRUB to boot windows from HD 1(hdb)? title Windows 2000 map (hd0,0) (hd1,0) map (hd1,0) (hd0,0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) chainloader +1 -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College,

dual boot from two hard disks
Here is a summary of my stuff, looks boot.ini is ok (some chars are french chars) dir /ahs /on (command) Le volume dans le lecteur C s'appelle COINTE DOS Le num‚ro de s‚rie du It looks like somehow Ghost overwrote Win95's two "system files" or the two files that Win2K uses to dual-boot. These are all hidden,

New Problem - printer(s)
S.Sengupta ssengup...@msn.com microsoft public windowsxp general You also need two separate licences-one for English and another for Russian. regards, ssg MS-MVP pronetworks.org wojo wrote: You can theoretically do this but you need to install them on separate partitions creating a dual boot scenario.

Dual Boot - drive selection menu doesn't come on at start up'
J. Steve wrote: Hi folks I would like to network my two home pc`s and wondered if there are any Linux specific tutorials I could check out. My main pc (the server?) is a dual boot windows 98se and SuSE 8.2 pro (although windoze is hardly used now) and my older PII (the client?) is just running Mandrake 9.2.