Alirght, I'm involved in a project to ship working laptops overseas to classrooms and I'd like to convert a 128mb 400mhz 10 gb Compaq laptop into a multi OS platform for the the little kiddies to have exposure to Windows OS. I have some old OS disks laying around (win 3.11/3.51/NT 4.0/95/98se/Me/2k) what program do I need to allow for a multi partition/multiple OS laptop? And it may help if I could source some null modem cables?
I don't know if you can install GRUB or not but that is what I use to dual boot Linux and Windows. It comes standard with Ubuntu. http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
Hmm...I don't think Grub will do (but thanks for the suggestion) as it's a bit beyond my technical prowess. I think it will need a OS and a Networking OS like Win98se and WinNT or WFW 3.11 but the variance of 16 bit 32 bit and NTFS could cause a problem?
You should be able to partition the drive in two different partitions and install the oldest OS first. I don't think you need to load a separate boot loader if both OS's are Windows.
I "think" the program I'm looking for was known as partition magic. I'd like to have 4 OS's on the laptop so the kiddies can have a wide range of exposure to M$..Win98/Win2k/WinNT/Win95 and maybe WFW 3.11 Include some null modem cables and the other laptops can be networked with the multi OS'ed latop?
Here ya go. Works just like Partition Magic. Home Edition is free. http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm
