[clue-tech] [OT?]How do I multiboot Windows NT 3.51 and Windows2000?

[David L. Anselmi]

Hex Star wrote:
> Hi, I'm getting a NetServer LH3R with 6 9GB SCSI drives installed and 2
> Pentium III 500MHz processors along with 1GB of RAM and 2 10/100 NICs and I
> would like to multiboot on it Windows NT 3.51 and Windows2000.

Do you think NT 3.51 will actually run on that?  I think it was 
end-of-life before the PIII was invented.  So it may not like your PCI 
bus, your dual CPUs, your NICs, your video card, or anything else.

Look at:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html

and search for "boot" and read the likely looking docs.  You'll find 
what you need there although you might have to do some fooling with the 
bootable/active flags on your partitions to get NT and 2k to cooperate.

> ...and thus would feel kind of guilty not putting this OS I just
> bought into use

Don't feel guilty.  Other than the intricacies of boot sectors and the 
NT installer that you learn I doubt you'll get anything out of dual 
booting NT (or are you an archaeologist?)  So throwing away NT doesn't 
really set you back any further than you are...

I'm surprised at the directly unhelpful replies you got.  This list 
usually puts up with all kinds of stupid, OT questions :-)  But it used 
to be that Linux lists were the only place to learn anything about dual 
booting.  (But if you find a Windows list that's helpful, even they will 
laugh at you for using NT I think.)

Good luck!

Dave
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