Testing on multiple platforms

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Mon Nov 11 21:52:01 EST 2002


You can, Shari, although the way I've done it in the past is to partition a
larger drive into multiple partitions and then install a different OS on
each partition. Then use the Startup Disk control panel to pick which
partition to start from.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/


----- Original Message -----
From: "Shari" <gypsyware at earthlink.net>
To: <metacard at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 7:28 PM
Subject: Re: Testing on multiple platforms


> >Shari,
> >You need to make a distinction between "computers" and "operating
> >systems". You can have one computer that runs many flavors of
> >Windows through different means. For example, Windows has dual-boot
> >option, enabling  installing of a variety of OSs on a single drive,
> >and SELECTION of which OS to actually boot at startup.
>
> Mac used to allow this.  I had it at one time running two systems.
> I'm not sure if you can still do it.
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