Re: Multiple OS' in a Disk

Try a program called System Commander Delux. I use it to boot NT, Slackware Linux and DOS. Sorry, I do not have a URL for you.

Good luck, Darryl

On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 01:22:35 +0800, "Dino Hsu" <dino1_at_ms1.hinet.net> wrote:

>Dear all,
>
>In order to study Oracle 8i's, I plan to buy a new desktop computer at home
>as the server with Intel Pentium III 800MHZ CPU, 256M DRAM, and 20G HDD X 1
>with my limited buget.
>
>Because 20G HDD is cheap, I would like to create four 5G partitions, three
>of which will be primary partitions, on which Windows NT, Windows 2000, and
>Linux Red Hat can be installed respectively; the rest one can be decided
>later. To do this, I need a multi-boot program to have all of the three OS'
>residing on the same disk. Does anyone have good idea about it? Someone told
>me to buy a replaceable disk box so that I can have one OS per disk, but the
>current disk space is so big, one OS per disk will result in waste of much
>disk space.
>
>The 256M DRAM is for Oracle 8i for Windows NT, I heard that the Java-written
>universal installer requires 256M DRAM and 1G of disk space. Do you think
>256M is appropriate?
>
>As for Oracle CD, my company owns licenses of Oracle 8i for R6 as well as
>for Windows NT (probably for Windows 2000, too), but none for Linux. Oracle
>here (Taiwan) provides only Oracle 8i Workgroup Server for Linux test
>version for free, I wonder if there is any cheap way of getting Enterprise
>Server for Linux test version?
>
>Any comments are highly appreciated.
>
>Regards,
>Dino
>
>
>
>
Received on Fri Dec 22 2000 - 02:01:51 CST