Question about Operation Systems

Purkinje · 08-14-2007, 10:13 AM

Is there any possible way to load two operating system at the same time?

jamie_Ridler · 08-14-2007, 11:50 AM

Yeh its called a dual-boot. The only requirements are enough space for both OS's, and they need to each be on a different partition or a different drive.
There are plenty of guides online for this type of thing.

~~PureEvilDan~~ · 08-14-2007, 01:10 PM

VMWare runs 2 operating systems at the same time...
Unless you want 2 OS installed on your machine, see Jamie's answer.

Purkinje · 08-14-2007, 07:09 PM

I was thinking more of PureEvilDan's answer. Not to have two OS's INSTALLED at the same time, but to have them both running at the same time. That's more what I meant.

kpmwrestler · 08-14-2007, 11:36 PM

try virtualbox

**K-B** · 08-15-2007, 05:07 AM

What will your host system be? Windows or Linux? In Linux (I'm talking about free) you have vmware, VirtualBox. There might be another one I don't know of, but those are the most popular. For Windows there is vmware, and Microsoft's Virtual PC (Not sure if it's free).

Purkinje · 08-15-2007, 05:17 PM

ok, thanks. I want to be able to go on the internet in Windows, while doing everything else in Linux. I have dial-up via a modem that doesn't have a driver compatible with Linux blah blah blah, so I kinda want to get around that until I can get a serial modem or (preferably) other means of an internet connection.

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jamie_Ridler Registered User Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Wellingborough, Northamponshire, England Posts: 341 OS: Windows Vista Home Premium My System	Re: Question about Operation Systems Yeh its called a dual-boot. The only requirements are enough space for both OS's, and they need to each be on a different partition or a different drive. There are plenty of guides online for this type of thing. __________________ *Comp Specs:* Asus P5K Intel P35 LGA775, Intel Core2Duo E6850 3.0GHz, Geil Ultra 4x1gb DDR2 800MHz, OCZ Geforce 8800GTX 768mb, Maxtor MaxLine III 300gb+250gb SATA2-300, Hiper HPU-4K580 PSU

08-14-2007, 01:10 PM	#3 (permalink)
~~PureEvilDan~~ Register user Join Date: May 2005 Location: England Posts: 229 OS: Gentoo AMD XP 2400+ 1GB Ram / WinXp Intel 805D 2GB Ram My System	Re: Question about Operation Systems VMWare runs 2 operating systems at the same time... Unless you want 2 OS installed on your machine, see Jamie's answer.

08-14-2007, 07:09 PM	#4 (permalink)
Purkinje Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 153 OS: Dual boot: Ubuntu and Win XP Pro SP2 My System	Re: Question about Operation Systems I was thinking more of PureEvilDan's answer. Not to have two OS's INSTALLED at the same time, but to have them both running at the same time. That's more what I meant. Last edited by Purkinje; 08-14-2007 at 07:11 PM.

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kpmwrestler Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 186 OS: win98/winxp, MS-DOS/win31/NT	Re: Question about Operation Systems try virtualbox

08-15-2007, 05:07 AM	#6 (permalink)
K-B Moderator, Linux Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: NY Posts: 2,876 OS: Vista, Ubuntu My System	Re: Question about Operation Systems What will your host system be? Windows or Linux? In Linux (I'm talking about free) you have vmware, VirtualBox. There might be another one I don't know of, but those are the most popular. For Windows there is vmware, and Microsoft's Virtual PC (Not sure if it's free). __________________

08-15-2007, 05:17 PM	#7 (permalink)
Purkinje Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 153 OS: Dual boot: Ubuntu and Win XP Pro SP2 My System	Re: Question about Operation Systems ok, thanks. I want to be able to go on the internet in Windows, while doing everything else in Linux. I have dial-up via a modem that doesn't have a driver compatible with Linux blah blah blah, so I kinda want to get around that until I can get a serial modem or (preferably) other means of an internet connection.