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Kristofer Gafvert kgafv...@NEWSilopia.com microsoft public windows server setup Hello, The problem with having them on the same partition, is that it is possible that both installations share some files. So if one fails, it is a risk that the other installation fails. It is also possible that if you change a

using boot.ini to remove multiple installations of windows xp?
Chem-R-Us TheChemE...@yahoo.com alt os linux mandrake Liam wrote: Hi, I've got two installations a Linux, Mandrake 7.1 and Slackware 7.0, how do you configure Lilo to boot the second installation of mandrake up correctly. Mandrake is on /dev/hda2 with Lilo installed on the boot sector. Currently when I try to boot

NTLDR missing?
When XP was up and running on D, I wanted a second XP installation on C for various reasons. I formatted C, did a clean install of XP, no problems. Multi boot screen shows both OS, XP on D still boots normally, but trying to boot the XP on CI get a black screen and the message "Windows could not start because the

Dual Boot Installations
If you did get WinXP installed once, then see if you can select it from the boot-up menu (be quick; you've only got 5 seconds) and boot into WinXP. This will open C:\boot.ini in Notepad. Delete the bottom two lines - the ones that refer to Setup and to \WinNT. Then edit the label inside the quotes on the line

Problem with multi installations
Yshoko ysh...@aol.com comp os linux setup Hi, I did a succesful dual boot installation with redhat 6.2 and win 98 on a 15.3 gig maxtor. spends a few minutes trying to search the linux partition every time I try to open a program. reading s fine, writing is fine, installation is fine, hardware should be ok.

Need advise
Donald Hess.Symantec DJ...@symantec.com symantec support winnt nortonantivirus definitionupdates On Wed, 12 Aug 1998 19:56:41 -0500, "Elvis" <el...@mediaone.net> wrote: Not true. Updater 1.7 will find both versions of Norton Utilities on my system but updater 4.0 will only find the NAV running on the current system

bought it, tried it, PAIN IN THE A*S
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/Legacy The WinXP installation routine will automatically set up a Multi-boot menu for you. The default settings for this menu can be readily edited from within WinXP.

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Kurt Roeckx k...@roeckx.be linux debian bugs dist linux debian maint boot Package: grub-installer Hi, I've done an netinst installation on an amd64 with the etch beta 3 (20060806) version. I've setup my /boot as a raid 1 device, so that in case of failure, I could still boot from my other disks.

Sol8 and Sol9..
That gets rid of the second copy of XP, but it doesn't get rid of the boot menu. To do this you need to edit your boot ini file and remove the second XP entry. Hi after a video driver glitch and trying to fix it using the XP disc, I now seem to have 2 installations of XP on the same disc, and have to choose

Dual Boot Installations
This log entry is from a disk check that was performed by XP during the first successful boot I made into XP after giving up on the Repair Installation and reinstalling the original P2 processor. It seems the volume was dirty as a result of all the failed attempts at running Repair Installations, especially the

Installations?
Gene Rodgers gene...@ticnet.com linux redhat install How did you boot up to install NT? Surely you have access to a Windows 95/98 machine. You use the dos prompt in those systems to create a boot disk using format :a (the floppy drive) and the /s option. (format :a /s). Then copy the fdisk and format programs from

Dual Boot Installation
While setting up the partitions, I created a separate partition as /dev/hda3 called 'newlinux' which gets mounted as '/newlinux' at boot. Under this /newlinux partition, I created the standard Linux file structure (bin, boot, dev, etc and other directories) and copied some of the essential files like sbin/init,

When to press "s"
I kept getting a blue screen duirng installtion of XP on the slave so I intsalled ME with a view to to installing XP over the top (upgrade) This has not worked but now I am unable to boot into my first installtion of ME on c:\ so how do I reboot into this copy ? Booting into c:\ with a start up disk gives a blue

Dual Boot Installation
Michael Altmann m...@aie.de linux debian bugs dist linux debian maint boot Package: installation-reports Boot method: CD and network Image version: Debian ..... Problem: grub yields errors after calling "setup (hd0)" from grub command line Solution: link -s /boot /boot/boot Problem: dmesg and syslog flooded by

Problem with Dual boot pc with 2 x Windows ME installations
Ich möchte nicht "irgendeine" Boot-CD erstellen. Das kann ich so auch. Das reicht doch auch für nen Bios-Update. Ich möchte eine Boot-CD mit den "original" Files vomn den XP Bootdisketten erstellen. (siehe Betreff) Hattest Du jemals die 6 Disketten in der Hand und davon gebootet? Ich glaube, Du hast falsche

dual boot with TWO DRIVES?
When the system boots up, it is apparently seeing two different operating systems, XP and Win98. I am asked which OS I want to boot. This happens every time. Is there a way that I can get the system to just boot XP by itself withou it asking for my intervention?? "Ron Badour" wrote: There is no need to install W98.

MCP750 sarge prep-boot installation
I think your plan will work - with a couple of caveats. ;^} When you move Drive 1 to the C: position, boot from the WinXP CD-ROM and use Setup to Repair the installation. Watch closely because sometimes - but not always! - it will refer to the existing installation(s) by drive# and partition#, rather than by drive

Red Hat Linux 7.2 release notes
->>Can anybody give me advice on how to install two copies of Windows on one ->>hard disk, one in English and the other in Japanese so that I can choose ->the ->>one I want when I boot? I believe there are tools out there, but I don't ->>know any names. I'm dual booting two copies of windows 98 here, one for games

Redhat 6.2 Linux/MS Windows Dual boot installation tutorials ...
When the installation finished I could boot to either OS. I transfered all my files to the XP drive and formated the ME drive with NTFS. I could not boot into the computer at all. The only way I could get in (and preserve the inital XP installation) was to reinstall XP on the drive that it was not already on.

How to configure GRUB loader for two Linux installations
George M. Winford [MVP] gwinf...@mvps.org microsoft public win98 setup Hello, Alan, What you are running up against, I believe, is the need of NT 4/W2K to install itself _last_ in a dual-boot/multi-boot configuration. That is the only way that it can setup its dual-boot menu. If you had some way to hide the