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"Partition fun"

Ok chaps, here's the deal :

I currently run a PC with 2 hard drives on it, XP pro is installed on C:. I have quite a few old games that refuse to work with XP, due to the file system, so I was considering installing an older version of windows (98 probably), either on the D: drive, or in a second partition I create on the C: drive.

What I'd then like to do, is have a funky menu come up each time I boot to ask me which O/S I'd like. What is the most simple way to do this?

By the way, windows 98 and these games aren't going to take up that much space, so I'm not going to waste my whole 20 gig D: drive on it, so if I plan to use that, it will need partitioning aswell.

Suggestions?

thanks

Can I ask, very nicely, what the point of learning the OS inside out is? Apart from the module on OSs next year :)

I could show you some screenshots but I'm not at home right now. It just looks like a plain install of KDE or Gnome until you personalise it (no gentoo branding like other distros) and I haven't done much more than install Superkaramba. The only time you would know that you were using gentoo is when the bootloader pops up.

When I installed it I actually had an old installation of Mandrake on a partition of my second drive: that was really useful when I got a bit stuck with config files, so if you wanted to install it alongside Mandrake then that might be a pretty good plan. It's a really good way to learn about the OS too. I'm a long way from being a Linux expert but I learnt more from Gentoo in a few weeks than I did the whole time I used Mandrake.

I'm gonna stick with Mandrake for a while, Get to learn the O/S and stuff :P

Then obviously move onto something more "hardcore" like Gentoo, Got any screenshots you can show us Unknown Kernal?

Icarus wrote:
> Well, let's start with the individual distros. I hate SuSe's one
> click method, Debian is rather rough around te edges, not even
> detecting my monitor, Red Hat won't even detect my laptop, hanging
> during installation.

I used Debian for a few painful weeks and then ditched it. I then used Mandrake but got tired of the hand-holding. Now I'm using Gentoo, the one where you compile everything from source, optimizing everything for your CPU. It really is amazingly zippy compared to Mandrake. And it's been fairly painless on the desktop thanks to some excellent installation docs.

> I'm not using it unless necessary. And on a final note, this
> dependency crap - I DON'T NEED IT.

The best thing about gentoo is portage, the package management thing. Just type 'emerge kde' and it will compile KDE and everything else it needs automatically. You can make it do all kinds of fancy stuff too, like only compiling support for gnome and not KDE. It's cool, if it's possible for computers to be cool.

Yep Windows for 64bit cpu's is out next your, The next incarnation of windows will be longhorn but they will probably do a 32 and 64bit version of these, or you may even ind they will only do the proffesional version with 64bit and the home with 32bit.

Colin

Icarus wrote:
> That's just Win Xp for 64bit processors.

Yeah, but its still a new windows.

That's just Win Xp for 64bit processors.

Miserableman wrote:
> cookie monster wrote:
> I think i will stick with XP pro for a long time.
>
> Unless the next windows is radically amazing.
>
> It will be radically amazing, but it will be radically amazing in
> 2006 at the earliest :O)

What about Windows 64 bit? I heard the public release is next year.

cookie monster wrote:
> I think i will stick with XP pro for a long time.
>
> Unless the next windows is radically amazing.

It will be radically amazing, but it will be radically amazing in 2006 at the earliest :O)

If the glorifed search function is all that it's hyped up to be, I'll be switching. I can't bear going through folder after folder just to reach a file.