Maybe you should consider products like VMWare. You would then have the ability to run many O/S systems without worrying too much about killing the host system. Steve -----Original Message----- From: Phillip Mills [mailto:pmills-5bG9SNWDbRX3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 8:27 AM To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org Subject: [TLUG]: Multiple installations When it comes to PC hardware, I really don't, therefore I have what's probably a ridiculous question. I set up a machine with a single hard drive partitioned to dual-boot between NT Workstation and SuSE Linux. I use my current Linux installation for all kinds of volatile stuff: trying out various SW packages, my own development projects.... I would like to have a second, bootable Linux environment on that computer that would stay relatively clean as a "production" server where I could demo stuff to clients without wondering what my latest downloads mangled. I've done this on Macs where it's as simple as adding another drive, installing a second copy of the system, and choosing which volume/partition to boot from. With PCs, however, I've heard horror stories from others about failing to boot because of number, location, or size of a given partition...or master vs. slave drives. Are there warnings/guidelines for what I want to do? (It sounds like it should be a "just do it", but others' experiences make me nervous.) ........................ Phillip Mills Multi-platform software development (416) 224-0714 -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml