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Major 7.2 & 7.3 install problems. Need help!
When you boot to CD their install CD you'll find it's an option during the installation process and *most* manage to get along moderately well with NTFS so You can, depending on your choice of distro, install and partition right at the same time. If you want to dual boot, however, you'll need to either edit the

Error message on boot up
OS/2 Version 1.2 was the first to incorporate the High Performance File System (HPFS, which supports long file names) and a dual boot mechanism. .... utility to set the new CMOS parameters, and then install OS/2 from the new Drive A. IBM is working to make the install process friendlier in future releases of OS/2.

Windows 2000 question. Should I bother?!
If you are installing to a clean hard drive with an Upgrade CD, during the installation process, you will be asked to insert a prior operating system Select the option: Start Computer with CD-Rom Support. When you get to an A: prompt, look at the entry immediately above it and note the letter that was assigned

Dual-boot/Tri-boot Question
Chroma chro...@hotmail.com linux redhat misc comp os linux setup Gurus, Been trying for two days to install RH on my Win98SE/WinXP dual boot system. Yesterday was spent with 7.2 and today with 7.3. Here are the symptoms as I understand them: The installation process itself runs fairly smoothly, I take mostly

Total loss of Hard Drive FATs? (Findpart output included)
I don't have Windows on my machine at work, but I do dual-boot at home. If you need more help email me again with you lilo.conf file attached or allow me to Whenever the installation gets to the question of were to put lilo I stop dead in my tracks. The only options the installation process has are to put lilo

install windows xp after redhat
A drive intended to become WinXP boot drive if the planned installation succeeds does not have any file. I am not sure if I am answering your question right. formatting your boot drive with the /s switch first, then try reinstalling it to that drive. as an added bonus, you will have the option to dual boot as

2 questions please
There is one question here. Can I use the fdisk that come witht the openbsd installation process? I can't find a command "b" in this fdisk. thanks Sam The 'b' Sorry for the top posting, but it seems to make sense here :-( Here's what I did recently to dual-boot OpenBSD (beginning of disk) and RedHat 7.2 (end of

Bug#422836: installer: No dual boot after installing Debian ...
</quote> IIRC somewhere in this thread you mentioned re-installing/installing 98 after XP was already installed. That will cause the dual boot to misbehave. If you wish to try: sys c:\ first before using btsect ..... Could I not just rename c:\windows to windowsx and then start the whole install process again? -- Rick.

Partitioning
So how do I reformate this drive to make use of dual boot effectively, does reformatting is the only option I have? For Mandake when you boot off CD-1, during the install process there is a partitioning section, Ensure that you select the Custom method so you can tell it where you want it to install to,

OS/2 Frequently Asked Questions
I haven't really had a chance to fully explore this option however. What I really want to do is install BootMagic on the hard drive and move LILO to an new from some reason LILO refused to install itself to hard disk, but installed itself happily to a diskette. Now I can dual boot NT - Win95, or boot Linux when

Installing Win2K And Large SATA Drive Question
It would be a dual boot system also with windows95 on it. It has a diamond 2000 video card that I know will be supported by Xwindows, and I have monitor that I have ..... Disk druid does help you with the install, but I was using the install process to remove the linux partitions and the extended partion.

Game installation problems Windows XP
I use SuSE 9, and during the install process it gives you the option of doing pretty much anything to a fat partition, and resizing NTFS if it doesn't To be able to shrink the file system more, boot your Windows system and run a disk defragmentation program under Windows to move the used blocks of the file

very long post re: Triple boot install order W98, W2K, WXP?
The problem I have has to do with the CD-ROM drive not being detected during the installation process. I have an IDE CD-ROM. Now, the question becomes: How ..... Linux OS needs only 100 MB of disk space for installation. Linux supports dual boot on the PCs - that is, you can have Windows95/NT on one partition and

Partitioning my hard drive
However, the documetation says conflicting things about which version to install. I also want to dual boot, choosing either win2k or Linux. Any advice? Thanks... Ok -- now that I've lectured you against installing really old Linux, here is hopefully more of an answer to your question. First, you need to understand

NTFS
My concerns lie with the boot process, so please forget jumpers since they're not the issue here. The hard drive in question WAS a slave that I wiped, then removed the Only some old mobo's have this option and it's not advisable for modern IDE drives. But you're also right. There are utilities from hard drive

Web Development with Django: Windows vs Linux/Mac OS X
The only way I know to do it at this point, since I have to have a "working" computer while I'm doing this (and due to my health it still takes me forever to do the simplest things) is to do a dual-boot (something else new to me). I'll also want to install only the OS (and not the other crap on the Dell disk) and

503+ and stuck on w98 install
... descriptions of the installation process. http://www.computerhope. com/issues/ch000346.htm http://www.helpwithwindows.com/windows98/dual-boot.html for info about dual boot for win 95 and win 98se and I think to do it I have to install 95 first and then 98, is that correct? will that way creat a boot option

your question
Once you have successfully installed WinME, You will have to boot from your Win2k installation CD and run the repair option. That should restore the ability to duel boot. Now I have a dual boot system. Until now all it has been working well. Now WinMe reports a series of enormeus system malfunctions.

Thoughts on the WarpII beta (was: beta II improvements?)
Although though things might change from now on, I'm sure that the only possible thing that can happen is the install process getting easier. How do I make it so I can dual-boot with my existing XP installation? Do I just boot from the Vista DVD and select a different partition to install to (I have two

Odd Dual Boot Problem
If you install win95 as an upgrade to your existing installation it will offer you the option of setting up the present system in a dual boot configuration. Now here's my question: Should I install win95 now or should I wait to have a faster computer (at least a P133). Will my computer be MUCH slower if it runs