Multiple-boot

Has anybody already use the multiple-boot capability of Windows 2000 to install LabVIEW-RT on the hard disk and to keep Windows 2000.
In the operational mode, the system will boot directly with LabVIEW-RT. But for maintenance purpose, I would keep Windows 2000 installed on the disk and I won't use the floppy to boot LabVIEW-RT.
If anybody has experience, I am interested. Thanks.

This has not been tried or tested by National Instruments as far as I am aware. I have read through some of the documentation on Microsoft's website and it appears they only support multiple-booting with their other operating systems. You may be successful setting up a dual boot machine (that does not use a floppy to boot into RT) using third party tools.
Regards,
Chad H.
Applications Engineering
National Instruments
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Share between several platforms, dual/multiple boot

Hi here!!
I review a lot of mozilla docs (out dated or without complete info), forums, googling ... about how to share firefox/thunderbird/ligthing data between platforms on dual/multiple boot system.
Every user in same trouble are repeating (copy/paste) in the solution to share the SAME FULL PROFILE on all platforms. I review profile data and folders and I can see files and config data that are platform dependent; then I think that share FULL PROFILE between is not the best approach, for example Linux and Windows will produce several problems (and a lot of problems with the add-ons)
In these same mozilla docs recommends to share only data and maintain custom profile for each platform, but not more info how to do it.
Please can some kind advanced :) provide some info about the correct approach. Or a better tech info about how is possible the recommendation of sharing same profile between platforms without problems. Because with the current doc info, there is no way to get a clear answer (Almost I can't :~).
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''the-edmeister [[#answer-675259|said]]''
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The Mozilla Developer Network documentation is here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
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Thanks, but As I said at first I reviewed mozilla docs too, but mozilla only do mention profiles content or management, but not how to share in multiple platforms or how profile must be created or be treated as cross-plattform.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data
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I'm very apreciate some notes how to do second main way recomended, that sais:
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iJny9956: Ok. I'll walk you through this best I can over the web. You'll need to go through the whole process twice—once for each OS.
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mount
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And given that SSD's 'should' be more reliable than the old mechanical drives then you would hope that a potential drive failure should be a less frequent event.
I like the potential speed advantages and was not aware of that. And on the RAID front, would it be an option to step up to something like RAID5 or RAID10? Or would that be an overhead or complexity a bridge too far?
The drivers you mention, do you mean for the Samsung Pro 840 drives themselves?
I sense a rebuild coming on!
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But if I could add this unit it might make sense to do so.

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MustafaEditor wrote:
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Thanks! A lot of interesting stuff. The Tiger DVD was the same one used to install Tiger originally on this and other machines so not that I think.
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2.If your video crashes , it is probably wrong Catalyst settings.Right click on screen , open Catalyst control settings , set it to high (Radeon) performance.
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