Re: in lieu of swapping out hard drives

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Joe, the issue isn't about how to multiboot. It is about how to do it on a laptop with an external drive and the resulting discussion is about problems of accomplishing that with an ExpressCard eSATA port.

"C.Joseph S. Drayton" <csdcs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:479f6022$0$90267$14726298@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I am a software developer, and I found the simplest solution is to have
a multi-OS system.

The primary hard disk in my laptop (I have 2 hard disk), contains
Windows2000pe, WindowsXPpe and Ubuntu.

Setting up a multi-OS system is pretty straight forward so long as you
do them in the right order. In my case, I wiped the disk then created a
partition for Windows2000pe. Then I created the next partition and
installed WindowsXPpe then I used a Ubuntu live CD to install Linux.

Note that when installing multiple Windows, it is best to start with
the oldest Windows first and work forward. Then Install any other OS.

When I boot, I get the grub menu and choose Windows. I then get the
Windows boot-loader where I can choose between Windows2000pe,
WindowsXPpe and the recovery console.

I do most of my coding from within WindowsXPpe. Since my apps are
designed to run under all Windows (except for Vista), I also run
VirtualPC and have VMs on the secondary drive for all flavors of
Windows.

If you end up installing a version of Linux, be careful since some
updates will reset your 'lilo' or 'grub' and you will lose access to
your Windows partitions. It can be easily fixed, so long as you keep a
LiveCD handy and remember the four commands that allow you to re-write
the grub or lilo config file.

One last word. I have been playing with Linux more, but lets face it,
it is a Windows world and will be for the foreseeable future, so I have
set up VMWare's VMPlayer under Linux to use the native Windows
partition rather than a virtual drive.

--

C.Joseph Drayton, Ph.D. AS&T

CSD Computer Services
Web site: http://csdcs.tlerma.com/
E-mail: csdcs@xxxxxxxxxx

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