Dual-Booting...howto install Office 2003...

[garfield-n-odie]

The one time I ever installed Office on a dual-boot system, I used Partition
Magic to partition the one physical hard drive, and installed Office in each
partition (it did work that way). I've never tried what you're proposing, so
I can't say with any certainty whether it will work or not. My
interpretation of the article is that if everything is NTFS, then you should
be fine installing to the same path on E:, because the article says to
install to the same path if everything is FAT16. But I think you already
know more about this than I do...

 

[garfield-n-odie]

The one time I ever installed Office on a dual-boot system, I used Partition
Magic to partition the one physical hard drive, and installed Office in each
partition (it did work that way). I've never tried what you're proposing, so
I can't say with any certainty whether it will work or not. My
interpretation of the article is that if everything is NTFS, then you should
be fine installing to the same path on E:, because the article says to
install to the same path if everything is FAT16. But I think you already
know more about this than I do...

 

[garfield-n-odie]

The one time I ever installed Office on a dual-boot system, I used Partition
Magic to partition the one physical hard drive, and installed Office in each
partition (it did work that way). I've never tried what you're proposing, so
I can't say with any certainty whether it will work or not. My
interpretation of the article is that if everything is NTFS, then you should
be fine installing to the same path on E:, because the article says to
install to the same path if everything is FAT16. But I think you already
know more about this than I do...

 

[garfield-n-odie]

The one time I ever installed Office on a dual-boot system, I used Partition
Magic to partition the one physical hard drive, and installed Office in each
partition (it did work that way). I've never tried what you're proposing, so
I can't say with any certainty whether it will work or not. My
interpretation of the article is that if everything is NTFS, then you should
be fine installing to the same path on E:, because the article says to
install to the same path if everything is FAT16. But I think you already
know more about this than I do...

 

[garfield-n-odie]

The one time I ever installed Office on a dual-boot system, I used Partition
Magic to partition the one physical hard drive, and installed Office in each
partition (it did work that way). I've never tried what you're proposing, so
I can't say with any certainty whether it will work or not. My
interpretation of the article is that if everything is NTFS, then you should
be fine installing to the same path on E:, because the article says to
install to the same path if everything is FAT16. But I think you already
know more about this than I do...

 

[garfield-n-odie]

The one time I ever installed Office on a dual-boot system, I used Partition
Magic to partition the one physical hard drive, and installed Office in each
partition (it did work that way). I've never tried what you're proposing, so
I can't say with any certainty whether it will work or not. My
interpretation of the article is that if everything is NTFS, then you should
be fine installing to the same path on E:, because the article says to
install to the same path if everything is FAT16. But I think you already
know more about this than I do...

 

[garfield-n-odie]

The one time I ever installed Office on a dual-boot system, I used Partition
Magic to partition the one physical hard drive, and installed Office in each
partition (it did work that way). I've never tried what you're proposing, so
I can't say with any certainty whether it will work or not. My
interpretation of the article is that if everything is NTFS, then you should
be fine installing to the same path on E:, because the article says to
install to the same path if everything is FAT16. But I think you already
know more about this than I do...

 

[garfield-n-odie]

The one time I ever installed Office on a dual-boot system, I used Partition
Magic to partition the one physical hard drive, and installed Office in each
partition (it did work that way). I've never tried what you're proposing, so
I can't say with any certainty whether it will work or not. My
interpretation of the article is that if everything is NTFS, then you should
be fine installing to the same path on E:, because the article says to
install to the same path if everything is FAT16. But I think you already
know more about this than I do...

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Keith,

You'll still need to install Office under each OS to write
the needed registry entries and for common files
in the Windows folder for each boot partition but
you can choose the same 'destination' source for
Office itself in a situation where you're not hiding
drives and the drive letters stay consistent (you could
also put it on the 'data' drive for example.

Check the links in the reference section of the
KB article previously mentioned as well for information
on using the Local Install Source option.

FWIW it's not uncommon to use FAT16 when you
may have on the PC or on a local network a PC
running a Win9x or WinME copy that needs to access
files.

Another option is to use MS's Virtual PC setup.

========Okay, that has answers for the following setups:

FAT16 partitions (Who uses these under Windows 2000 and XP? That's
odd...but okay)

FAT32 & NTFS used in conjunction, because they're "incompatible" however,
running Windows 2000 and XP would be no problem, as they both can read all of
the above partition types.

I'm running NTFS on all three - so is it possible, or do I have to do an
install on each OS's partition?

Thanks again!>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Keith,

You'll still need to install Office under each OS to write
the needed registry entries and for common files
in the Windows folder for each boot partition but
you can choose the same 'destination' source for
Office itself in a situation where you're not hiding
drives and the drive letters stay consistent (you could
also put it on the 'data' drive for example.

Check the links in the reference section of the
KB article previously mentioned as well for information
on using the Local Install Source option.

FWIW it's not uncommon to use FAT16 when you
may have on the PC or on a local network a PC
running a Win9x or WinME copy that needs to access
files.

Another option is to use MS's Virtual PC setup.

========Okay, that has answers for the following setups:

FAT16 partitions (Who uses these under Windows 2000 and XP? That's
odd...but okay)

FAT32 & NTFS used in conjunction, because they're "incompatible" however,
running Windows 2000 and XP would be no problem, as they both can read all of
the above partition types.

I'm running NTFS on all three - so is it possible, or do I have to do an
install on each OS's partition?

Thanks again!>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Keith,

You'll still need to install Office under each OS to write
the needed registry entries and for common files
in the Windows folder for each boot partition but
you can choose the same 'destination' source for
Office itself in a situation where you're not hiding
drives and the drive letters stay consistent (you could
also put it on the 'data' drive for example.

Check the links in the reference section of the
KB article previously mentioned as well for information
on using the Local Install Source option.

FWIW it's not uncommon to use FAT16 when you
may have on the PC or on a local network a PC
running a Win9x or WinME copy that needs to access
files.

Another option is to use MS's Virtual PC setup.

========Okay, that has answers for the following setups:

FAT16 partitions (Who uses these under Windows 2000 and XP? That's
odd...but okay)

FAT32 & NTFS used in conjunction, because they're "incompatible" however,
running Windows 2000 and XP would be no problem, as they both can read all of
the above partition types.

I'm running NTFS on all three - so is it possible, or do I have to do an
install on each OS's partition?

Thanks again!>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Keith,

You'll still need to install Office under each OS to write
the needed registry entries and for common files
in the Windows folder for each boot partition but
you can choose the same 'destination' source for
Office itself in a situation where you're not hiding
drives and the drive letters stay consistent (you could
also put it on the 'data' drive for example.

Check the links in the reference section of the
KB article previously mentioned as well for information
on using the Local Install Source option.

FWIW it's not uncommon to use FAT16 when you
may have on the PC or on a local network a PC
running a Win9x or WinME copy that needs to access
files.

Another option is to use MS's Virtual PC setup.

========Okay, that has answers for the following setups:

FAT16 partitions (Who uses these under Windows 2000 and XP? That's
odd...but okay)

FAT32 & NTFS used in conjunction, because they're "incompatible" however,
running Windows 2000 and XP would be no problem, as they both can read all of
the above partition types.

I'm running NTFS on all three - so is it possible, or do I have to do an
install on each OS's partition?

Thanks again!>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Keith,

You'll still need to install Office under each OS to write
the needed registry entries and for common files
in the Windows folder for each boot partition but
you can choose the same 'destination' source for
Office itself in a situation where you're not hiding
drives and the drive letters stay consistent (you could
also put it on the 'data' drive for example.

Check the links in the reference section of the
KB article previously mentioned as well for information
on using the Local Install Source option.

FWIW it's not uncommon to use FAT16 when you
may have on the PC or on a local network a PC
running a Win9x or WinME copy that needs to access
files.

Another option is to use MS's Virtual PC setup.

========Okay, that has answers for the following setups:

FAT16 partitions (Who uses these under Windows 2000 and XP? That's
odd...but okay)

FAT32 & NTFS used in conjunction, because they're "incompatible" however,
running Windows 2000 and XP would be no problem, as they both can read all of
the above partition types.

I'm running NTFS on all three - so is it possible, or do I have to do an
install on each OS's partition?

Thanks again!>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Keith,

You'll still need to install Office under each OS to write
the needed registry entries and for common files
in the Windows folder for each boot partition but
you can choose the same 'destination' source for
Office itself in a situation where you're not hiding
drives and the drive letters stay consistent (you could
also put it on the 'data' drive for example.

Check the links in the reference section of the
KB article previously mentioned as well for information
on using the Local Install Source option.

FWIW it's not uncommon to use FAT16 when you
may have on the PC or on a local network a PC
running a Win9x or WinME copy that needs to access
files.

Another option is to use MS's Virtual PC setup.

========Okay, that has answers for the following setups:

FAT16 partitions (Who uses these under Windows 2000 and XP? That's
odd...but okay)

FAT32 & NTFS used in conjunction, because they're "incompatible" however,
running Windows 2000 and XP would be no problem, as they both can read all of
the above partition types.

I'm running NTFS on all three - so is it possible, or do I have to do an
install on each OS's partition?

Thanks again!>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Keith,

You'll still need to install Office under each OS to write
the needed registry entries and for common files
in the Windows folder for each boot partition but
you can choose the same 'destination' source for
Office itself in a situation where you're not hiding
drives and the drive letters stay consistent (you could
also put it on the 'data' drive for example.

Check the links in the reference section of the
KB article previously mentioned as well for information
on using the Local Install Source option.

FWIW it's not uncommon to use FAT16 when you
may have on the PC or on a local network a PC
running a Win9x or WinME copy that needs to access
files.

Another option is to use MS's Virtual PC setup.

========Okay, that has answers for the following setups:

FAT16 partitions (Who uses these under Windows 2000 and XP? That's
odd...but okay)

FAT32 & NTFS used in conjunction, because they're "incompatible" however,
running Windows 2000 and XP would be no problem, as they both can read all of
the above partition types.

I'm running NTFS on all three - so is it possible, or do I have to do an
install on each OS's partition?

Thanks again!>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Keith,

You'll still need to install Office under each OS to write
the needed registry entries and for common files
in the Windows folder for each boot partition but
you can choose the same 'destination' source for
Office itself in a situation where you're not hiding
drives and the drive letters stay consistent (you could
also put it on the 'data' drive for example.

Check the links in the reference section of the
KB article previously mentioned as well for information
on using the Local Install Source option.

FWIW it's not uncommon to use FAT16 when you
may have on the PC or on a local network a PC
running a Win9x or WinME copy that needs to access
files.

Another option is to use MS's Virtual PC setup.

========Okay, that has answers for the following setups:

FAT16 partitions (Who uses these under Windows 2000 and XP? That's
odd...but okay)

FAT32 & NTFS used in conjunction, because they're "incompatible" however,
running Windows 2000 and XP would be no problem, as they both can read all of
the above partition types.

I'm running NTFS on all three - so is it possible, or do I have to do an
install on each OS's partition?

Thanks again!>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Keith,

You'll still need to install Office under each OS to write
the needed registry entries and for common files
in the Windows folder for each boot partition but
you can choose the same 'destination' source for
Office itself in a situation where you're not hiding
drives and the drive letters stay consistent (you could
also put it on the 'data' drive for example.

Check the links in the reference section of the
KB article previously mentioned as well for information
on using the Local Install Source option.

FWIW it's not uncommon to use FAT16 when you
may have on the PC or on a local network a PC
running a Win9x or WinME copy that needs to access
files.

Another option is to use MS's Virtual PC setup.

========Okay, that has answers for the following setups:

FAT16 partitions (Who uses these under Windows 2000 and XP? That's
odd...but okay)

FAT32 & NTFS used in conjunction, because they're "incompatible" however,
running Windows 2000 and XP would be no problem, as they both can read all of
the above partition types.

I'm running NTFS on all three - so is it possible, or do I have to do an
install on each OS's partition?

Thanks again!>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx