For all you dual-booting computer users.......a question!

[The Wildcard]

I have win2k and win98 as a dual booting system, each with their own respective partition. My question is this. I have a third partition that i created so that i could install in there, programs that both win98 and win2k could use.

My question is this, however...if i install lets say....microsoft office, through win98 in the third partition. Can i acccess microsoft office through win2k? What if the situation were vice versa?

Would this work for other progs, like icq? norton antivirus?

 

[WoundedWallet]

yes.... and no!

It depends on the application.

Some apps install files on the system folder. Those won't work. You will need to re-install on top of itself.

Some apps will be self-enclosed (all in one folder). Those will work. Only need to install once.

Now the bitch are those apps that are self-enclosed(or not) but have pointers to the system folders. In this case you will need to install the app twice AND in different folders.

I think that sums it all.

 

[The Wildcard]

Okay, what if i were to play half life from both oses? i would have to isntall half life twice, BUT NOT IN TWO SEPARATE FOLDERS, no? i could have it install i nthe same folder, but i would have to do it twice. once in win98, once in win2k? no?

 

[SUOrangeman]

Yes, install apps/game twice (once in each OS), but to the same folder (on the third partition).

Just be careful when you uninstall.

-SUO

 

[The Wildcard]

Hmm exlain orange man

 

[mjquilly]

I think orangeman was getting at this:

say you go out and buy Ice Cream Maker 6.0

you install it in win2k, into your third parition.

then you install it in win98, overwriting the first install of it, so that both OSes can execute it.

When you uninstall it from one OS, the other OS will still think it is there. You could run into minor problems when trying to uninstall fromt the second OS, but nothing too bad I wouldn't think

 

[DO97]

Uninstall from one OS, go to the other OS, reinstall, then uninstall again

dave

 

[SUOrangeman]

Reinstall just to unistall sounds like abit of a waste. But, doable nonetheless. I'm sure that most folks will find that they don't need apps in both OSes (one will certainly become the favorite), and the wicked stepchild OS will be used for other things that the primary one can't/won't do (trying out new apps, Napsterizing, etc.).

-SUO