Dual Or Multi Booting Os

I'm running xp on my computer, but I'm wondering if anyone knows how to dual boot/multi boot for 98 or linux and if mac os will run on a pc. Can anyone help please? I don't wanna reformat seeing that I have ut2004 and a couple of other games installed that I don't have anymore. Thank you all for your timePeaceAaron

One word: Google. You can partition the drive for Linux and 98 (I think). Mac will run under an emulator.

Well to do a dual boot of two different windows os' I'm pretty sure you'd have to reformat first....I dunno if you look inside your windows help program in start menu and look it up it gives a pretty detailed tutorial...Or atleast thats what I remember from when I was reading over that

I'm running xp on my computer, but I'm wondering if anyone knows how to dual boot/multi boot for 98 or linux and if mac os will run on a pc. Can anyone help please? I don't wanna reformat seeing that I have ut2004 and a couple of other games installed that I don't have anymore. Thank you all  for your time

Peace

Aaron

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You should make a partition for you windows XP and a partition for your other operating system. You can manage that with Partition Manager. YOu can download this from KaZaA. This program will give you further instructions.

You should make a partition for you windows XP and a partition for your other operating system. You can manage that with Partition Manager. YOu can download this from KaZaA. This program will give you further instructions.

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Kazaa is full of spyware...Get it from Ares Galaxy instead and Partition Manager does work...but for me only once.

Knoppix to the rescue !!!!!!!!!!!!
get your self a knoppix cd image from http://www.knoppix.org/ and burn the iso to a cd.

then boot this cd.

in the main menu is aprogram called "qt-parted" its a partiton tool.

shrink your current windows partiton to make space for new parttions.

then, aswell as your windows partiton, you will need the following partitons...

1 boot partiton (10 - 20 megabytes)
1 swap partiton (linux uses a partiton as swap instead of a file, which severely reduces disk framgmentation) (i recomend 512megs to 1Gig)
1 partiton for every OS you want to install.

lets say u want 3 OS's, windows, linux, and macOSX, you will need 5 partitons.

next, download a Linux install CD, and boot that...
i recomnd the following free newbie friendly distro's of linux
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ (a distro based on redhat)
https://www.suse.com/ (a distro by novel)
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ (great distro, stable, and easy to use)

none of those distro's are the fastest or most powerfull linux distro's but they are the easyest to use.

for an easy to use NON free distro, use http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

find more at distrowatch.com

when installing linux it asks if it should auto-partiton your dirve, slects NO, and manually partiton.

make sure you select your 10meg partiton as the boot partion, and your 500 meg partiton as swap... then pick one of the free unused partitons as root.

install as normal.

tadaaaa.... you have a dual boot windows/linux system, and your windows partiton is still in working order, no need to tre-install.

for more help, goto http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

to install MacOSX, you will need the emulator called PearPC (which runs ontiop of linux)
but thats anouther tutorial.

allo....

u can use acronis os selector...... u can multiboot without format ur h/d.

u can download at dis link:

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

But thats shareware ($45).... Knoppix is free and open.

Though I'm more for the emulator, you can also get Mac OS X on a PC if you get some of Mac's parts that are compatible with your motherboard. Then, all you have to do is get the OS CD and install normally. Though I haven't done this myself, I do know that simply accumulating the parts is a challenge. As for configurations, don't look at me. I haven't touched a Mac since our school switched over to Microsoft products...and you can guess how many security issues we've had with that now. What's really sad is I can change everybody's password from a computer running 2000 or XP. That, and they use an outdated version of Novell Netware, making hacking the network laughably easy. Wish Jason (tech guy) would install Linux on them...

I would recommend the Knoppix method. qt-parted will let you resize your ntfs partition. Partition Magic will work but myself and a couple of my colleagues have had issues with it. Once you get your partition resized you can make a new Linux partition and put your favorite distro on there. For a linux newbie I recommend Ubuntu, it's pretty new and it's based on Debian but it's dumbed down a bit. It's pretty good about being up to date. You could always try Gentoo but that may be a bit difficult for someone who's never used a *nix operating system before. Hope this helps, cheers.

Knoppix to the rescue !!!!!!!!!!!!

get your self a knoppix cd image from http://www.knoppix.org/ and burn the iso to a cd.

 

then boot this cd.

 

in the main menu is  aprogram called "qt-parted" its a partiton tool.

 

shrink your current windows partiton to make space for new parttions.

 

then, aswell as your windows partiton, you will need the following partitons...

 

1 boot partiton (10 - 20 megabytes)

1 swap partiton (linux uses a partiton as swap instead of a file, which severely reduces disk framgmentation) (i recomend 512megs to 1Gig)

1 partiton for every OS you want to install.

 

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Nice post there qwijibow! I had partitioned my hard drive for windows and left some space available for linux, but I began to run out of space on my windows platform. Following your post I booted my Knoppix CD, then resized my partition using qt-parted. Everything works well and now I have more space available on my Windows platform!

Oh yea.. Knoppix is a sweet little distro.. Great for learning Linux.

The Linux distribution that you're using should come with a partition manager. All the ones I've tried have, and even if it doesn't there are a number of new partition managers for Windows and DOS that are designed specifically to install whatever operating system you want.

jonypawks i agree that's one way and the other is to partition a part of the drive ( if the drive is large enought for multiple os's ) . but anyway as for the mac emulation, don't try it, it's very slow unless you have a super-duper fast computer with like 6 gigs of ram. I tried it with mac os x last time and it was soo freakin' laggy.

well i reckon if you are wanting to run linux and windows on the same machine one good way, if you don't fancy partitioning your hd, is to install vmware and install the os into a vmware virtual partition. Thats how I run WinXP and Suse Linux together and the advantage is you don't have to reboot to switch os's and linux or microsoft os's will run just as fast in vmware. As for mac os the only way to get that running on a pc is to use an emulator like cherry os or PearPC but like Artluo100 said it would be v slow unless you have a super fast pc.anyway thats my opinion.