Re: FN-FORUM Networking PCs & sharing peripherals

date posted 27th June 2002 11:47

Thanks Darren,

> You don't necessarily need to buy new systems to install
> ME and XP on. Have you considered partitioning your
> hard drives and running different OS's on the partitions.

I considered it, but I didn't want to have to reboot all the time. Also I
was frightened of messing up all my work and existing software. Besides
which, my existing desktop is really creaking already - it's not a
particularly high spec and it's already running Apache, PWS, ColdFusion,
PHP, JRun, SQL Server and MySQL, to name but a few. But on second
thoughts, I could just get one new box instead of two, and put XP and ME
both on it. Good idea. I'd still have to do all the networking, but it
would save the cost (and space) of one PC.

Thanks

Nick