The best way to learn how to do those things is choose a distro that comes with a bootloader, and then read their documentation.

You can configure your computer to start Windows 2000, Windows NT, and either Windows 95 or Windows 98. However, you cannot configure a computer to multiple boot Windows 95 and Windows 98. Both Windows 95 and Windows 98 use the same boot file. Therefore, multiple booting Windows 95 and Windows 98 at the same time is not supported. Your installations are less prone to problems if you install Windows 95 or Windows 98 before you install Windows NT and Windows 2000.

Remember, the IO is basically a standard pentium class PC with a standard BIOS and a 16MB flash memory card. Please read some of the messages in the "Technical" area on the I-Appliance Discussion Forum BBS, you will find many posts there talking about different OS's and how other installations went.

No. The lmhostid is used to calculate the key, not the server hostname. The lmhostid should be the same for both since it comes from the Ethernet card. Since it is the same, the user should have two copies of his license file. The one for Windows should have the server name set to the Windows server hostname. The Linux license file should have the server hostname associated with the machine when booted under Linux.

Yes, but you will have to have two partitions (or hard drives) so that you can install XP separately from your other system (which can be DOS/Windows 3.1, Windows 9x/Me, Windows NT 4.0, or Windows 2000). Windows XP will automatically set up a boot menu so you can choose which OS you want when the machine starts up or reboots. The boot menu is configurable by hand-editing the hidden file boot.ini, which you will find in the root of the C: drive.

You can also find additional information from this Microsoft Help Forum thread: Dual Boot Windows - Links Galore

If all goes well, DebianInstaller should automatically add a working menu item for an existing Windows installation. If no menu item was added, please file a detailed installation report. If you are using GRUB as your bootloader, add the following lines at the end of the file /boot/grub/menu.

LiteCommerce supports UNIX/Linux, Windows and Mac OS X servers. We highly recommend you choosing a UNIX/Linux server. With LiteCommerce, every product can have one thumbnail and unlimited number of additional product images.

Linux can co-exist with a variety of operating systems without any problems. Hit http://www.pcquest.com/linux to browse archived articles on Linux installation. That is almost always an indicator of a hardware problem, usually flaky RAM or a mis-aligned CDROM drive. Try replacing the faulty component. Signal 11's and signal 7's are errors indicating a hardware error in memory or on the bus. This can be due to problems in executables or with the hardware of the system.

You must first resize your Linux partition using a program like Disk Druid, parted or some other partition-manipulating program. You can then add a Windows partition and install Windows. When you are done you need a boot disk to get back into Linux and reinstall GRUB. For additional information, email .

Dual booting Gentoo Linux/SPARC and Solaris can be done one of two ways. The two ways are: having both Gentoo Linux/SPARC and Solaris on the same drive, or having them on separate drives. Below are example SILO configurations for each scenario.

Yes you can! In fact, yabootconfig will automatically detect and setup /etc/yaboot.conf with Linux, Mac OS X and even classic Mac OS (see the Gentoo Handbook for details on yabootconfig). The trick is in how you partition your hard drive. Before installing Gentoo, startup with the Mac OS X Install CD. Use the Disk Utility to partition the drive in your machine into two or three partitions.

DISCLAIMER: Messing around with boot loader issues can make your harddisks unbootable. Please make backups before doing so. Please install a new boot loader only when you really now what you do. We reject any responsibility for damages that may occur on your system. GRUB - the GRand Unified Bootloader - needs to access some files in order to run. Its best you place them on a small - 50MB is enough even for further extensions - FAT 16/32 partition.

Booting into Linux is easy, all you need is a recent copy of Penguin (the booter) and a kernel. (Both of which can be found on this site under "Downloads".) Before you can boot into Linux, you will need to turn off Virtual Memory and you may need Mode32 (see the section on Mode32, later). Start up Penguin, select the kernel that you want to boot from in the configuration screen, and then use the boot option from the file menu. If it works, you'll get a message about rarp requests.

A solution could be to include QTParted in a distribution with live filesystem, for example Knoppix, or SystemRescueCd. uuid is a library included as a part of e2fsprogs. It's required for parted and QtParted. You have to install e2fsprogs by compiling sources:

Yes. However, it requires you to reinstall Linspire after installing any other operating systems you'd like to boot with which will require installation disks for both operating systems. The recommended steps to perform this are: Create a Linspire Installation Disk from the Linspire Installation ISO file that came pre-loaded on your Seagate Barracuda 7200 drive located at (root)\mycomputer\mydocuments\ISOs\Linspire-OEM-4.0.581-3.ISO.

Simply copy the win98 folder to your hard drive. Run setup from the copied folder and that's all there is to it. If you have already installed win98, copy the folder anyhow then when an installation file needs a file from the cd, browse it to your copied folder. Remember to keep your product key which is on your cd cover, so even if you don't need the cd to install you need the product key on the cd rom cover. Yes, Open DUN, and click "Connections", "Settings".

If you're running Pro, you can use GPEDIT.MSC to prevent Messenger from loading. Otherwise, even disabling it in startup won't cause it to "always" not run. Outlook, Outlook Express and some Microsoft web pages can still make it load. You can now modify whether it starts initially and/or whether it is to run at all. If you don't have Pro, run Windows Messenger, Tools, Options and uncheck "Run this program when Windows starts".

Go to Explorer, insert a floppy disk, right-click on the A Drive, click Format, check Make System disk and click OK.

Sure, you can. Create a primary partiton BEFORE your Windows partition (e.g. with PartitionMagic) and get a boot manager (I use the german tool 'Bootmanager', you can get a free trial version at http://www.bootmanager-pro.de).

No. I'd need hands-on access to your machine to troubleshoot this. Go ask your local Linux user group for hands-on help. (You can find a list of user groups here.) Note: questions about installing Linux may be appropriate if you're on a forum or mailing list about a particular distro, and the problem is with that distro; or on local user groups forums. In this case, be sure to describe the exact details of the failure.

Usually the Win9x will be the C: drive, which also contains the files needed for booting. So, you cannot simply reformat this partition to remove Win9x. Instead, the following procedure should work: Delete the C:\Windows and C:\Program Files folders, along with any other folders on the C: drive that you do not need anymore. Some reports also say you can format the C: drive and boot from the Win XP CD, which will allow you to repair the boot files.

You will need a TSM client for each operating system. Register separately for each of your two (or three) operating systems for HFS TSM Backup via the registration pages. This will give you TSM Client nodenames of the form username-text-department/college, e.g. abcd1234-windows-exeter and abcd1234-linux-exeter. You should then obtain and install the latest TSM Client software for each operating system, from the Getting Started link from the front page of the HFS web pages.

No. All future versions of Windows, starting with OSR2 will not support dual-boot. ( That includes Windows 98. ) Because of the new FAT32, Windows will crash if you boot to another OS that does not support FAT32. ( DOS for example. )