[TriLUG] Linux and WinXP on same drive

[Rodney Radford]

I wouldn't try installing two versions of Windows on the same drive.  Even if you can make sure the Windows specific files are in two locations (as you describe below), you would probably pull your hair out trying to determine which apps or data on the same drive goes with which version of Windows (even if the executables can be run on both versions, the registry data will probably only be available and/or correct on one).  That is why I typically set up different partitions for each, installing the apps as needed for each, with a different 'share' drive across the different versions of Windows, Linux, etc.

However, if you really have to use multiple versions, it will definitely be a bit of a pain regardless of how you do it...

-----Original Message-----
>From: David McDowell <turnpike420 at gmail.com>
>Sent: Apr 7, 2006 1:21 PM
>To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
>Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Linux and WinXP on same drive
>
>uh oh, the PR man just got trumped... ;)  yeah Xen!  I'm ready for this one.
>
>I've dual booted XP and linux on same drive, on 2 different drives,
>etc, installing win first is easiest, but you can get lilo or grub
>back.  W2k and XP can both run on the same C: drive... if you have w2k
>installed to c:\winnt, then winXP might be installed to c:\windows ...
>either way, I wouldn't do it... and to go back to win98 also, well,
>you might need that partition magic and even then... *shudder*.  I've
>done XP and Ubuntu successfully on a T42, both hibernated so swapping
>and loading up an OS was EASY, except Ubuntu's un-hibernate takes just
>about as long as a fresh boot... I'm sure this will be improved upon
>though.  :)  :)
>
>laters,
>David
>
>On 4/7/06, Cristobal Palmer <cristobalpalmer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Considered trying Xen [0], Qemu [1] or (avast! a proprietary product!
>> arrrrrgh) VMware [2]?
>>
>> Maybe one day the hardware [3] for running an unmodified windows vm in
>> xen will be cheap.... What am I saying? Maybe one day windows will be
>> irrelevant.
>>
>> If nothing else, (not having to reboot)++
>>
>> Please note that our meeting next week is on Xen. Come on down and
>> learn something, eh?
>>
>> -CMP
>>
>> [0] http://www.xensource.com/products/downloads/
>> [1] http://www.qemu.com/about.html
>> [2] http://www.vmware.com/products/ws/
>> [3] http://www.xensource.com/news/pr082305.html
>>
>> On 4/7/06, T. Bryan <tbryan at python.net> wrote:
>> > On Friday 07 April 2006 00:09, Rodney Radford wrote:
>> > > If I remember the details correctly, you want WinXP and Linux on one
>> > > physical drive (in different partitions), and Win98 on a second physical
>> > > drive.  If that is correct, yes, you should be able to do that with grub.
>> >
>> > You can also let the Windows XP boot loader kick things off, can't you?
>> >
>> > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+NT-Loader.html
>> >
>> > That's how I have been letting Windows and Linux share the same drive lately.
>> > And I'd hope that the WinXP boot loader would be able to handle the
>> > multi-boot between WinXP and Win98 well, but I've never done that.
>> > Windows...bleh.
>> >
>> > ---Tom
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