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Triple boot
Name: SKULL_NOOSE Date: January 22, 2003 at 05:39:40 Pacific OS: LINUX, WIN, BeOS CPU/Ram: 1.0GHz P4 256MB
Comment:
WILL BeOS BOOT ON A COMPUTER THAT IS ALREADY RUNNING WINDOWS AND LINUX. THIS WOULD MAKE IT A TRIPLE BOOT.
Name: Bobthearch Date: January 22, 2003 at 06:39:13 Pacific
Reply:
Absolutely possible, and a great idea. I actually have 7 operating systems currently installed and bootable, with plenty of room for more! Each hard drive can have four primary partitions, or three Primary with an Extended containing a large number of Logical drives.
BeOS is actually the easiest OS to install because it will glady install on any partition, Primary or Logical, on any drive, Slave or Master. And it only requires a single partition.
Best Luck, Bob
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Response Number 2
Name: SKULL_NOOSE Date: January 22, 2003 at 13:33:39 Pacific
Reply:
THANKS. WHAT OS's DO YOU HAVE LOADING?
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Response Number 3
Name: Bobthearch Date: January 23, 2003 at 08:34:09 Pacific
Reply:
Win 98 Mandrake Linux Lycoris QNX Nuetrino Oberon FreeBSD BeOS
Win 98 is on a single Primary partition, Master drive. Both Linuxes and BeOS are logical partitions on the Master drive. QNX, Oberon, and FreeBSD take one primary parition each on the Slave drive. (FreeBSD takes a single Primary parition and divides it into it's own "slices".)
Getting multiple OSes installed is easy. Figuring a system for booting all of them isn't...
-Bob
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Response Number 4
Name: onlocash Date: March 24, 2003 at 23:10:19 Pacific
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Hey Bob what ver of Beos do you have and what hardware do you run it on? On my system I run Win98se,Win2kPro,WinXpPro,Qnx,Beos,Amiga4ever Redhat7.2,Redhat8.0
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