How do I share programs on a multiboot system (like MS office) ?

[wjsulliv]

Basically, I am about to redo my system as a multiboot system on a single hard drive. But I don't want to have to install things like Office, Quicken, Netscape, etc in each OS and thus have 2 copies of Office 2000 on the same machine....

I plan on loading Win Me, Win 2000, and Linux on dedicated partitions for each OS, and then at least one empty fat32 to share files, etc.

Is there a way to do this so that the Windows OS's can share the programs? (I know linux won't be able to, but how about windows?

 

[jblondi]

Check this FAQ

Also take a look at the FAQ compairing the differences and problems with running NTFS and FAT32 partitions and trying to share.