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Well I just wanted to brag of my ability to triple boot my computer. Right now I have Win2k, Win98, and Mandrake 8. I will be adding WinXP whenever I finally receive my CD (damn Microsoft takes its sweet time). I know it's pretty much useless to add a fourth OS, but I thought it would be fun to play around with them anyways. Anyone have any higher numbers of OSs on their computers?

BADFlSH

I used to have 98, 2000, BeOS, Solaris, and Mandrake Linux (yes thats right 5) but I usually used 98 because of my games and stuff so when I reformated I was to lazy to put the rest of them back on.

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No!!!
I will have to start downloading more OSs
I was thinking of adding FreeBSD, UNIX, and BeOS. But I can't find a place to download BeOS.

revil

I'm booting AdaOS, Alliance_OS, AROS ,AtheOS, BEOS 5,
BPMK, Cefarix, Chaos, Counterpoise, CP/M, Darwin, DCP, Debian GNU/Hurd, E.R.I.K.A, eCos, ELKS, EROS, Fiasco, Free-VMS, FreeBSD, FreeDOS, Freedows, GEM, JOS, Linux, MANOS, Minix, MorphOS, NetBSD, Oberon, Open Windows, OpenBSD, Plan 9, PowerOS, QNX, ReactOS, RTEMS, S.Ha.R.K, Solaris 8, SpiderOS, Unununium, V2_OS, VSTa, Winmac, xMach, Yamit, and Yoctix.

I may be leaving a few out.

revil

I would tell you more, but i don't want all you out there knowing i'm running Hello Kitty OS.

BADFlSH

lol, you scare me!

revil

what's even scarier is when Unico mysteriously pops up on HK OS

Bires

When Win95 was in beta and I was learning Linux...he called me an "OS junkie."

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xsiled

sad you had to copy the list of downloadable OS on freeos.com

revil

ah, you caught me.

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oh my freaking god you mean you didn't do all of that?

CounterActiveX

How the hell did you get past the 24 partition limit????

Now that I found the multiboot experts, anyone know how to make Win98 and WinME coexist on the same system? I currently have win98, 2000pro, 2000adv, 2000adv server, winXP beta1, DebianGNU stormix2000, along with a swap and windows(fat32) application partition. I have tried manually configuring the boot.ini and msdos.sys files unitl I am blue in the face. Apparently they overwrite each other in the MBR. The only I have found is instructions in japanese for manually editing and viewing the MBR.
Me ahh speakenese no japan!
Can anyone help?

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Use partition magic to make the partitions for each OS, then use boot magic to manage the different boots.
That should work, I have never done it but I am guessing it would work

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Oh and I got rid of Linux and Win98se, I only use Win2000Pro on a regular basis so there was no point in wasting disk space with the other OSs.

revil

i multiboot with win2k pro and win2k pro japanese version

topane

I've got DOS 6.22, Red Hat 5.2, BeOS 4, Win98SE, and NT 4.0 on mine, but I'm using System commander

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Way to go reverend evil
Japanese?
I would have never guessed

moosehead

I'm dual booting Win2k Pro and 98SE using BootMagic. It works great. The way to set up all the OSes is as follows:

1. you will want partition magic on boot disks or a bootable cd.
2. install the first OS, run partition magic to hide the partition you just installed to and possibly make new partition(s) if need be.
3. Then continue by installing your other OSes, hiding each one before going on to the next.
4. finally, change the hidden partitions so that only a win9x/me is visible, and make sure it is set to active so that it will boot. Boot into win9x and install Partition Magic and BootMagic, restart if it asks to, then when you are back in 9x, run BootMagic configuration, make sure to check the box for enable BootMagic, and select the default Os and set the boot timer to your liking...you should be good to go

NOTES:
a) keep in mind that some OSes need to be on partitions within a certain "distance" of the beginning of a harddrive, some withing 2GB, others have a higher number that I haven't figured out yet (linux appears to be able to go anywhere, if you have any problems with it, just make a small partition close to the beginning of the disk and put just the /boot directory on it, and the rest of the OS wherever)
b) when you install linux (and possibly with unix as well) make sure to select the option of NOT writing the boot information to Master Boot Record (MBR), you should get a choice of 2 locations, one being the MBR, the other I think might be called the superblock???

Happy Hunting

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Scojo

Man, you guys are a real buzzkill. I thought that my quad-booting box was the schiznit (Win2k, WinME, Linux-Mandrake, WinXP RC1).
I actually only use WinME and Linux, except when I'm just messing around.

Scojo

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