Installing O.S. on another partition with PartionMagic and BootMagic.

[Richard]

I'm looking at the instructions and they seem to boil down to this:

* Using P.M, install another O.S. wizard*:

Wizard creates a error free partition.

Before finishing you can choose to set active or not. Say you choose NOT to
set active.

* If B.M. is enabled*:

On a reboot you get the B.M menu.

You boot into the old O.S. and add the new primary partition to the B.M.
menu.

You select the new partition to boot from.

When you reboot, you make sure you have O.S. installation disk in CDROM or
bootable floppy in A:

You install new O.S.

You then reboot choosing the old O.S.

You run B.M. and "set up the new operating system options".

When you reboot next time B.M. menu will display both old and new O.S. and
be able to choose either.



I don't quite understand the above because it looks uneccessarily
longwinded.

I mean cannot the proceedure be:


* Using P.M, install another O.S. wizard*:

Wizard creates a error free partition.

Before finishing you can choose to set active or not. Say you choose NOT to
set active.

* If B.M. is enabled*:

You add the new partition to the B.M. menu before rebooting.

On reboot you get the B.M. menu which shows the old and new partitions to
boot from.

You select the new partition to boot from.

When you reboot, you make sure you have O.S. installation disk in CDROM or
bootable floppy in A:

You install new O.S.

When you reboot you now have a choice of two O.S.


For those with P.M and B.M., is there anything wrong with the second
procedure?

BTW, I cannot install XP onto my new partition. Before B.M. menu appears, I
see that I could boot up from the CDROM, (because it's in my CD ROM)
but I don't choose that, because I'm looking to select the new partition in
the B.M. menu when that appears, and install WindowsXP from the CD
ROM. I wonder if I need to use a bootable floppy to then get the
installation going from the WindowsXP CD.

 

[Richard]

I'm looking at the instructions and they seem to boil down to this:

* Using P.M, install another O.S. wizard*:

Wizard creates a error free partition.

Before finishing you can choose to set active or not. Say you choose NOT
to
set active.

* If B.M. is enabled*:

On a reboot you get the B.M menu.

You boot into the old O.S. and add the new primary partition to the B.M.
menu.

You select the new partition to boot from.

When you reboot, you make sure you have O.S. installation disk in CDROM or
bootable floppy in A:

You install new O.S.

You then reboot choosing the old O.S.

You run B.M. and "set up the new operating system options".

When you reboot next time B.M. menu will display both old and new O.S. and
be able to choose either.



I don't quite understand the above because it looks uneccessarily
longwinded.

I mean cannot the proceedure be:


* Using P.M, install another O.S. wizard*:

Wizard creates a error free partition.

Before finishing you can choose to set active or not. Say you choose NOT
to
set active.

* If B.M. is enabled*:

You add the new partition to the B.M. menu before rebooting.

On reboot you get the B.M. menu which shows the old and new partitions to
boot from.

You select the new partition to boot from.

When you reboot, you make sure you have O.S. installation disk in CDROM or
bootable floppy in A:

You install new O.S.

When you reboot you now have a choice of two O.S.


For those with P.M and B.M., is there anything wrong with the second
procedure?

BTW, I cannot install XP onto my new partition. Before B.M. menu appears,
I
see that I could boot up from the CDROM, (because it's in my CD ROM)
but I don't choose that, because I'm looking to select the new partition
in
the B.M. menu when that appears, and install WindowsXP from the CD
ROM. I wonder if I need to use a bootable floppy to then get the
installation going from the WindowsXP CD.

I know what do.

Make sure BIOS looks to CDROM before HDD. That's my usual setup.

Use PM "install another operating system" Wizard to create an error free
primary partition. Do NOT set this partition active.

Enable BM and make sure both primary partitions are in the menu.

Reboot with WinXP install disk in CDROM.

First option at startup will be to reboot with CD.

Choose that and enter the WinXP Setup.

When you see "To set up Windows XP now press Enter."
Press Enter follow instructions and install WinXP onto your
new primary partition.

When you reboot you ought to have the option of selecting either O.S.