Re: MULTI-BOOTING

The Virtual PC route is one that you should really consider, or perhaps
VMWare. VMWare server is free for non commercial use.

I multiboot 3 operating systems on my machine (Win XP, Vista and Ubuntu)
the best boot manager I ever used is this: http://www.bootitng.com/

You'll need to read through the docs carefully to achieve such a exotic
setup as this, but it is possible. I used to boot Win 98 with it but I
just use VMware now.

Timothy Daniels wrote:
"Jim Obasa" wrote:
I have five partitions and five different Windows installation CD's.
Windows 95, Windows 98 SE, Windows 2000 Pro,
Windows XP Pro and Windows Vista Home Basic.
I would welcome step by step guidance on the best way to proceed
installing these five Operating Systems so that everything runs smoothly.
Only two of my partitions are currently active. Windows XP Pro one
one and Windows Vista HB on the other. Is there any way to achieve
my goal without disturbing these existing installations. Not sure if its
relevant, but I also have MS Virtual PC running within the XP and I
am currently running 98 and 2000 on the Virtual.

Any help/advice would be much appreciated.
Thank you. jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx --
JIM OBASA

These OSes span 3 different boot managers, and the latest
OSes have already been installed - the opposite of the way
Microsoft recommends and documents, since MS says to
start with the installation of the earliest OS and install in
chronological order of their release dates. To work back to
the Win95 installation without disturbing the Vista and XP
installations would require lots of experience and patience
and a poster who has gobs of time on his hands to explain
how to do it. Since the computer apparently has the power
to run Virtual PC satisfactorily, I'd go with the advice of others
and run the earlier ones under Virtual PC. The other
practical alternative is to re-install all the OSes, starting with
Win95 and working forward to Vista.

BTW, you have just submitted your email address for
spamming, as spammers have software that automatically
harvest email address from newsgroup postings.

*TimDaniels*

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