[thelist] solaris and windows dual boot possible?

Matt Wenham matt at mattwenham.co.uk
Mon Oct 8 08:22:21 CDT 2001


> hi, sorry if this is a silly question but i was
> considering downloading solaris beta release and was
> wondering if some experts here can tell me if i can
> have a dual boot with these 2 OSes? actually i already
> have caldera linux and windows 2000. so i am talking
> of a triple boot system.

Well, the *best* way to do it is to have separate removable hard drives
for each OS and separate data drives, hopefully accessible from all the
OSes.

If you don't want to do that, I highly recommend the PowerQuest
PartitionMagic and BootMagic packages, which help emormously with this
sort of thing. BootMagic will optionally hide the unused OS partitions
so they can't be seen by the OS which you're booting up.

Matt...




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