Windows Multi-boot question.

[CDigs]

Okay, here's the situation:

1) I need to install Win2KAS for application development (ASP)

2) I want to install WinXPPro for general usage.

3) I also want to install Win2K3 for testing.

My question is whether software installed under one OS will be visible to the other OS. My gut feeling is that this is not the case, especially if the program requires changes in the registry.

My other question is how different is IIS6 from IIS5; will ASP (plain vanilla ASP apps) developed in 2K3 behave the same way in 2KAS? If it is the case that 2K3 and 2KAS are no different in this respect, then I will go ahead and only install the 2K3.

Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[LiLithTecH]

Installing all the OS's on the same Partition along with the
apps in the same directory would allow use under them all.

(I would not recommend that potential nightmare to anyone)

For a TEST/DEVELOPMENT Lab, your best bet is Seperate Partitions
and Installs of each OS/App (hard drive space is realitively cheap today).

 

[13black]

I have never tried this so I don't know if it works. The story goes like this. You install one os to your c: partition, you install your programs to another say E:. Now you install OS no2 to D:, then install the same programs to E: again. The reg entries and files needed get installed for each OS. Also any files or documents you create are available to the other OS. Like I said I haven't tried it myself so I have no idea what kind of problems could crop up. Should work as long as you don't mix 9X with an NT os, FAT with NTFS.