A few questions

[Patrick]

Greetings to all, I am thinking about making a few changes to my BeOS setup
and there are a few things I was wondering about before I did so. Please
excuse me if there are easy to find answers to these somewhere, I looked and
I didn't really find any. My setup now is I dual boot BeOS and Win98 using
Be's boot manager. I would like to mess around with WinXP a bit and install
that along side Win98 and BeOS. Just to double check, Be can read but not
write to NTFS? I was also a bit concerned if XP would give me problems
using Be's boot manager. If anyone has any words of wisdom they would like
to share, I would be grateful.

Thanks,

Patrick O'Reilly

[Malthus]

Post by Patrick
Greetings to all, I am thinking about making a few changes to my BeOS setup
and there are a few things I was wondering about before I did so.
Please
excuse me if there are easy to find answers to these somewhere, I looked and
I didn't really find any. My setup now is I dual boot BeOS and Win98 using
Be's boot manager. I would like to mess around with WinXP a bit and install
that along side Win98 and BeOS. Just to double check, Be can read but not
write to NTFS?

Yes that's true. Even if you were not keeping Win98, it is worth
considering keeping a Fat partition of some kind as a shared file dump
that both XP and BeOS and read and write to.

Post by Patrick
I was also a bit concerned if XP would give me
problems
using Be's boot manager. If anyone has any words of wisdom they would like
to share, I would be grateful.

Wisdom? I wouldn't presume...
But you can boot XP from Bootman just fine. When you first install a Win
OS it will by default take over the boot sector as though it's the only
thing there. So you need to have a bootable BeOS cd or floppy to get
back in to BeOS, then re-install Bootman.

Actually I think the most trouble you'll get is trying to run different
versions of Windows on the same machine. As I understand it, Windows
hates that, but I think there are workarounds. I suggest you search the
Windows newsgroups before going much further.

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Nigel Malthus.


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[Bill Leeper]

Post by Patrick
Greetings to all, I am thinking about making a few changes to my BeOS setup
and there are a few things I was wondering about before I did so. Please
excuse me if there are easy to find answers to these somewhere, I looked and
I didn't really find any. My setup now is I dual boot BeOS and Win98 using
Be's boot manager. I would like to mess around with WinXP a bit and install
that along side Win98 and BeOS. Just to double check, Be can read but not
write to NTFS? I was also a bit concerned if XP would give me problems
using Be's boot manager. If anyone has any words of wisdom they would like
to share, I would be grateful.
Thanks,
Patrick O'Reilly

Windows XP will let you dual boot with a previous version of windows. You
will have that option during the installation phase. But MS still hasn't
learned to play nicely with other OS's. :-)

[Vanne de Castle]

Post by Patrick
Greetings to all, I am thinking about making a few changes to my BeOS setup
and there are a few things I was wondering about before I did so. Please
excuse me if there are easy to find answers to these somewhere, I looked and
I didn't really find any. My setup now is I dual boot BeOS and Win98 using
Be's boot manager. I would like to mess around with WinXP a bit and install
that along side Win98 and BeOS. Just to double check, Be can read but not
write to NTFS? I was also a bit concerned if XP would give me problems
using Be's boot manager. If anyone has any words of wisdom they would like
to share, I would be grateful.

WinXP duel boots just dandy with the Be Bootman. and if your worried
about not being able to write to Ntfs, you can always just install XP
with the FAT32 Option. Simple as that. or even better, install XP (OS)
into a NTFS partition, and just make a Fat32 partition for all you
apps that you want to have access to from BeOS, its the way i do it
and it works grand :)

do note however, that XP /is/ a serious memory hog, so if your win98
se is working nicely, dont expect XP to run nicely on the same HW.

For XP to be usable, id recommend at least a 1ghz processor, at least
256+128 megs ram and xp needs at least a Gig to install on. anyhows,
hope you get on well :)

kind regards
Vanne (BeOS Rocks!)

[Bill Leeper]

Post by Vanne de Castle

Post by Patrick
Greetings to all, I am thinking about making a few changes to my BeOS
setup and there are a few things I was wondering about before I did
so. Please excuse me if there are easy to find answers to these
somewhere, I looked and I didn't really find any. My setup now is I
dual boot BeOS and Win98 using Be's boot manager. I would like to
mess around with WinXP a bit and install that along side Win98 and
BeOS. Just to double check, Be can read but not write to NTFS? I
was also a bit concerned if XP would give me problems using Be's boot
manager. If anyone has any words of wisdom they would like to share,
I would be grateful.

WinXP duel boots just dandy with the Be Bootman. and if your worried
about not being able to write to Ntfs, you can always just install XP
with the FAT32 Option. Simple as that. or even better, install XP (OS)
into a NTFS partition, and just make a Fat32 partition for all you apps
that you want to have access to from BeOS, its the way i do it and it
works grand :)
do note however, that XP /is/ a serious memory hog, so if your win98 se
is working nicely, dont expect XP to run nicely on the same HW.
For XP to be usable, id recommend at least a 1ghz processor, at least
256+128 megs ram and xp needs at least a Gig to install on. anyhows,
hope you get on well :)
kind regards
Vanne (BeOS Rocks!)

I am running XP on a P-III 733 and it runs nicely. As a matter of fact it
is faster then Win ME was on the same machine. It does, however, run
slower than BeOS does on my dual P-II 450 machine. Sure wish Zeta would be
released. :-)