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Dual Booting

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by mjared, 2006/10/12.

  1. 2006/10/12
    mjared

    mjared Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hello

    I am looking at Dual booting some windows O/S that support terminal services. I have 1 monitor and 2 computers and most of Microsoft’s O/S's. But I want to setup computers to share the same monitor using terminal services. Does Up pro come with the terminal server or just the client software and if it can't act as the server what version of 2003 O/S would I use? I want to dual boot xp pro/2003 on 1 machine and xp pro/2003/ and vista on another. Also when you partition can you use fdisk to create the partitions then install the oldest O/S on 1 of them? then install a dual boot program of some sort or modify your boot.ini then install the remaining O/S's? Anyway if somebody can help me I would be grateful.

    Thank You
    Jared
     
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  2. 2006/10/12
    PeteC

    PeteC SuperGeek Staff

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    Jared - Welcome to the Board :)

    I'll leave the first part of your post to those more knowledgeable in those matters to respond to.
    Yes, use fdisk to set up the partitions. Load the older OS first, then load the other OS by booting from the CD and selecting the partition on which you want to install it. Windows will set up a dual boot menu automatically, there is no need for a third party boot manager.
     
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  4. 2006/10/13
    TonyT

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    Rather than use Terminal Services to share the monitor it would be (1) more efficient and (2) faster to use a KVM switch that allows use of 1 monitor-keyboard-mouse with 2 or more computers. I use a Belkin KVM I picked up for about 25 bucks. Scroll-Lock key switches between computers.
    Prices vary at stores, average is less than 30 bucks:
    http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=134802#
     
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  5. 2006/10/17
    mjared

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    Great Thanks Guys.
     
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