[McTavish]

If you mean on one machine then I might have had close to 40 not long ago when I had various betas of Vista and most versions or each as well – Home, Ultimate, Business, BusinessN etc. At the moment that machine must have around 20 different OSes. But if you’re counting clones as well then it usually has up to 70 fully independent OSes all on their own partitions with just one boot manager. And several in VMware. It’s just a standard 3-4 year old x86 PC. Screenshot

[awergh]

wow what a lot of partitions what size disks do you have?

[McTavish]

There is four 160gig drives there. 18 bootable OSes per drive is a limitation of my bootmanager.

There have been a few people in this thread saying they can’t run Windows independently from logical partitions. It’s true you can’t install to a logical without using the Windows bootmanager, but you can clone an install there and so free up the primaries, then use another boot manager. If you use a compatible cloning tool and bootmanager then all you have to do with NT is edit the boot.ini in the clone to point to the correct partition number, (normal cloning precautions apply with NT if the parent is going to be present on the system during first boot of the clone). With Win9x there is no boot.ini so they boot fine as is. You just need your bootmanager to hide the partitions before it.

You can do the required partition tweaks manually if need be.
http://www.goodells....boot/ptedit.htm

[sonu27]

With 20GB theres not much you can or want to do.

WinXP Home good enough, with a 5 year old PC, reaching 6.

[Fredledingue]

Just one:
w98SE usp3.0

[Dblake1]

i boot 3:

1. Windows XP Professional
2. Windows 98 Second Edition
3. Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon"

[Zxian]

On all the various machines I work on...

Windows XP Professional SP3
Windows XP Professional x64 SP2
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise SP2
Windows Vista Business SP1
Fedora 8 64-bit
CentOS5 32-bit
CentOS5 64-bit
OSX 10.5
RHEL5 64-bit

I chose 10-20...

[Uméesh]

i am using 3 operation systems

1. Win98
2. Win XP professional
3. Win Vista Ultimate

[etso]

Windows XP Professional SP3 , Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 x86 and Kubuntu 8.04 x86

[Idontwantspam]

Right now I've got XP Pro SP3 and Ubuntu 8.04. I had vista too for a while but needed the space it was taking up.

[danasaur]

I always use GRUB, and run 98, 2Kpro, XPpro, Vista (OMG, how totally lame), Solaris, Suse, Fedora, PCLOS, along with a few other (transient) Linux flavors. Not a blind obsession, I need to test my apps on all platforms. But my first partition for the past 10 years, is always W98SE, and it is the ONLY WinTel I ever trust on the net! Of course, that is after a lot of castration... removing the MS-Malware: MSIE, MSOE, WinUpd, WSH, WinJava (ruled illegal in DOJ Sun suit anyway). Once that is done properly, I have never found a virus that doesn't bring up a "duh, whattayawannaopenthisthingwith?" dialog. Nothing left to "collaborate with the enemy". Absolutely immune to all viruses ever made, once FireFox w NoScript/Flashblock have been configured sensibly. Of course, there is no way any of my Win kernels will get any software updates from MS.com after all this, but who wants someone lifting up my gal's skirt on line, anyway? W98SE was quite simply, ostracized by its own daddy, because of its potential invulnerability and stability, not its "security hazards" as MS claims. Removing the lift-and-peek built-in back doors from W98SE makes the most stable Win platform ever made, since 622. That is why they pressure Sandisk, Kingston, PQI and all the other USB manufacturers to deny 98 compatibility... specifically (all manufacturers who provide W98 USB access natively get removed from standard driver packages in the newer editions). MS-Blackmail, the usual suspect. This is so they could force ignorant consumers to use an OS on line that would totally lay down and drop its drawers for any probe... and more importantly, data collection. The first time I registered my W2Kpro on line, I got barraged with spam in my (previously) spam-free mailbox, overnight. All the spam was personal, addressed to the ("user") name I used on line in that registration. Some was rude, obscene, proving beyond a doubt just how few moral scruples MS has about "to whom" it sells its registered user database. So I participated in your poll, not to boast, but to explain why I have a scrolling menu list at boot time, and why W98SE is the only MS entry I ever punch while the 10-100 is plugged in. So I really appreciate this forum, which seems to have attracted all the sensible folks who (know) the MS spin against 98, and unjustified abandonment, is BS. It is the ONLY safe 32-bit progeny of a rogue corporation, so we will never allow it to be annihilated. We will keep it alive -and vital. I suspect MS will order this entire comment removed... but I will send all here, big kudos anyway.

[lost_packet]

I have Windows 2003 Server (my favourite OS) on one computer with bootpart (http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm) giving me double-boot to Linux CentOS 5.1;
On another box there is an n-lited WinXP (I detest that virus-like Windows Media Player, plus I slimmed down some other components);
A third machine runs pure Windows XP, which until very recently was double-booted for testing with Windows Server 2008 (removed due to hardware incompatibilities, although it was nice and speedy).

I also run Knoppix from time to time...

[Camarade_Tux]

Vista (forced to), XP, Slackware Linux, slamd64, freebsd and several in virtual machines or less often : Plan9 (yes !), Haiku (though not lately), ReactOS to check the progress.

[arvind_kumar]

The 2 Os I use are:
1. Windows XP Pro 32 bit.
2. Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit.

regards,
@rvind

[pm*]

i've two boot on my old pc

old pc config:
Clock speed 800mhz
256MB RAM
Two DVD Writers
OS:XP-x32bit platform;98SE

I've one boot on my new pc
new pc Config:
Clock speed:2.6Ghz
1024MB RAM
One DVD Writer & one DVD Combo
OS:XP-x32bit platform

[Latchko]

[quote name='awergh' date='Sep 7 2006, 06:37 AM' post='557625']
So how many OS's do you boot
About billion times!

[*Daniel]

may be off topic, does that include using software VM ware to run more than one os at a time?

[Tripredacus]

I boot only 1, XP Pro. Of course my computer boots to a menu which I could pick .net Server 2003 Enterprise, but its because I used to dual with that but removed it, and didn't bother fixing the boot.ini.

[dencorso]

3: Win XP Pro SP3, Win 98 SE, MS-DOS 7.10. I use Grub4DOS to multiboot.

[g-force]

1. XP Pro (optimized for Cubase-MusicProduction)
2. XP Pro (Working-OS)
3. Win7 x64 (Testing)