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Thread ID: 50683	2004-10-28 22:21:00	Dual operating system bootup	camo (4895)	Press F1

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285841	2004-10-28 23:25:00	Are the two versions on the same HD, (I hope not)? They should be on two seperate HD's if they are have the OS you want to load most of the time as master and the other as slave. You can clear the other OS out of the boot.ini so you will not have to choose anymore. When you want to use the other OS press F8 on boot you will be able to select which HD you wish to boot from.	Rob99 (151)
285842	2004-10-28 23:29:00	Sorted! Thanks Godfather. Your prize is in the mail...	camo (4895)
285843	2004-10-28 23:33:00	> Are the two versions on the same HD, (I hope > not)? > Rob, ? You can have many O/S on one HDD. If you run the same version twice you will need a third party loader, the windows one will not permit this. I have severall third party loaders that will. Lilo and Grub can be edited to deal with this, some of the later versions do this automatically. XP PRO is senior to XP home so this should not be an issue for the win loader, it "should" see them as 2 seperate O/S. D.	drb1 (4492)
285844	2004-10-29 00:00:00	I am to lazy to back up my statement of not having two XP OS's on one HD, I am sure I read that on MS website (have you seen the size of their website). I realise you can have many patitions with various OS's installed, but I was sure not two XP's on the same HD. Anyway if you can prove me wrong, that will be a first, as I am never wrong. Or at least 50% of the time.	Rob99 (151)
285845	2004-10-29 01:00:00	Rob, Its about sharing, and learning. The windows boot loader will not allow 2x the "same " o/s, on one drive, or even somtimes in the same system. xp pro and home are not the "Same" hence Camo can do this. Look at this one, its not a bad transitional, before you start editing lilo or grub. http://www.zbmsoft.com/ D.	drb1 (4492)
285846	2004-10-29 01:26:00	I suspect that you could have multiple incarnations of the same OS, as long as you gave them different "names". If you edited boot.ini after the first installation to read, say, "XPPro(1)", I'd bet that you could install XP Pro (on a different partition, of course) and get a new boot.ini which would allow either to be booted. The names don't matter ... they are just for people. ;-) The loader wants to know where on the disk to start loading ...	Graham L (2)
285847	2004-10-29 01:36:00	Graham, You are probably correct, the win loader isnt configured for this out of the box. Would you not need to Edit the O/S name before install? As the win loader system shares the drivers of all the win O/S in 1 dir, hence the need to be aware of overwrites whent installing devices and sometimes S/W. D.	drb1 (4492)
285848	2004-10-29 01:46:00	OK can you aggree with me that I am correct in saying you guys are probally right. I think you need to have different computer names as well for each install. info from same place as I mentioned above.	Rob99 (151)
285849	2004-10-29 02:45:00	Rob, Sometimes the inf from that place conflicts, even on that places site. I have 98se, 2k-P, XP-P. shared. Primary part 5G, extended partition (This disk) logical drives 10G, !7G, 7G app 40G metric drive. All same machine name, all same P/W, loading from std M/S loader. All 3 O/S get the same DHCP add from the DHCP server. Why do I have this? S/w that ran on 98, ran on 2k like dodo, has been upgraded to run on xp. Will now run on 2k but not well, it’s the only thing I use xp for as I don’t like it. 98 is still kept as the origanal backup version as the data is ona shared Raid That S/w is the only reason I still use M/S, as it is not so cheap to exchange for a linux version, But I will do so soon, when the nix version gets a little better. D.	drb1 (4492)
285850	2004-10-29 03:58:00	The "name"s I referred to are just the labels of the entries in the loader dialogue . You probably can't "edit" the name of an OS . . . . that's too thoroughly built in . But you can call it anything you like . You could make boot . ini let you choose between "Fred", "Joe", and "That Bastard" . If you wanted (I can't imagine why) to have two incarnations of, say, "Windows XP Pro" you would need to change the label in boot . ini after doing the first installation . The second installation would add a new entry with the label "Windows XP Pro" . If there was one there already, it would get upset . ;-)	Graham L (2)
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