On 3 Apr 99, at 15:14, Mick Fitzpatrick wrote:

> I intend to add a few more operating systems to my PC but before I
> do I'd like a to get a good and user friendly 'boot manager'. Can
> anyone recommend one?

  I don't know of additional software to recommend beyond what people
have already suggested.

  I currently run one machine with dual boot -- Win95 OSR2 for general
use and DOS 6.22 for a few old games (no network support in this mode).
  For a while, I had a workstation that was dual-boot between NTWS
(where the compiler worked right...) and Win95 (where my application
would run...), and found I was spending 30% or more of my day rebooting
to switch OS.  A second PC did wonders for my productivity!
  Other flirtations with multiple boot have been about equally
frustrating.

  Also be aware that a PC hard drive can have a maximum of four primary
partitions, and a multi-boot loader generally takes one of those.
There are further restrictions on where FAT and bootable partitions can
be placed....

  Installing multiple OSes on a single system can be a useful
experiment (learning experience) without buying extra hardware.  My
experience, though, is that this isn't really a tenable long-term
approach, and that any OS you use heavily should probably be given its
own machine -- even if its core technologies are a year or two out of
date.


David G

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