[Dual Booting and sharing App's]

Jaclaz,

Thanks for the fast reply. This is a great forum to look up things.

I understand better now about the installation of my utilities programs in a dual boot environment.

I was trying to be lazy and not have to install somethings twice. I see now that I will have to.

Thanks,

Dzgruntld

Yes, I am a Postal Worker.

No, I do not own a gun.

[Dual Booting and sharing App's]

Greeting MSFN,

I understand dual booting so I can have two or more operating systems on one computer.

My question or part I am not sure of is,will or can the operating systems share applications/ programs?

Example: Disk0 partition 1 Windows XP

partition 2 Windows Vista

partition 3 Utility Programs ( firewall, anti-virus, word processor, etc)

partition 4 My Documents folder

With my utilities installed on partition 3, will each OS be able to access and run the same program?

I think I mean can I install the utility programs once into a single partition?

With My Documents installed on partition 4, will each OS be able to access and modify files

and the other OS still read a modified file?

I hope I am making some kind of sense in my questions.

Thanks,

Dzgruntld

Yes, I am a Postal Worker.

No, I do not own a gun.

[Applicaton installs]

Greetings MSFN and Alman84,

I am not asking the question right, I know what I want:)

I think I understand the coding ""firefoxinstall.exe -ms"".

That is telling windows to install Firefox and do it silently.

My question is: Where will windows find the "" firefoxinstall.exe""

It is not on the hard drive yet, we are still installing the OS.

Right??

So I am thinking ""firefoxinstall.exe"" will be on the Unattended Install Disk.

Where do I extract/ copy the ""firefox.exe"" to?

Thanks,

Dzgruntld

Yes, I am a Postal Worker

No, I don't own a gun

[Applicaton installs]

Greetings MSFN again,

I think I found the answer to my own "duh" question. I needed to read more of the instructions.

Somebody please correct if I am wrong.

I THINK I need to copy the actual program itself into the:

\$OEM$\$1\Install\Applications\"Program's Name"\ folder, ( I would need to make the folder??)

Thanks again for a great site,

Dzgruntld

Yes, I am a Postal Worker

No, I don't own a gun

[Applicaton installs]

Greetings MSFN,

This site is really nice to learn from, I am having fun learning to make an Unattended install disk. I am following the online guide and a lot of it makes sense, so far.

My question seems like one of those "duh" ones so bare with me please. I am following the part about installing applications, sort of understand the switching and telling Windows to do this and that.

So here is the "duh' part, where do I put the actual programs I want? I know,( I think ), the applications' software has to, should be somewhere for Windows to find.

How would I keep the Unattended install under 700MB so I can use a CD if I add everything I want? I don't mind using a DVD if I have to, just trying to reach a new level of Geekdom.

Thanks for a great site and the information,

Dzgruntld

PS: Yes, I am a Postal Worker.

No, I don't own a gun.