- Restarting Windows after Running BeOS

As mentioned above, the BeOS 5 Personal Edition that you 
downloaded turns itself into a Windows application when you 
install the downloaded file.  Unlike most Window applications, 
however, BeOS 5 Personal Edition takes over your computer:  
It shuts down Windows and launches BeOS 5.  To get back to 
Windows, you have to reboot your computer.  Note that running 
BeOS 5 Personal Edition will not harm your Windows operating 
system -- it doesn't delete any data or alter the Windows 
registry.  When you reboot into Windows after running BeOS 5, 
your computer will revert to its normal plodding existence. 


- Disk Space (Part 2)  

Once you've got BeOS 5 Personal Edition running you may wonder, 
"Where did all my disk space go?"   

Remember, Personal Edition "lives" inside a 512 megabyte file. 
Some of the 512 megabytes is taken up by the operating system 
itself, and some more is devoted to a variable-sized "swap file" 
(or "virtual memory").  After all of that is accounted for, 
you might not have a whole lot of room left for writing and saving 
files.  To get around this shortcoming, you can mount other 
partitions.  For example, you can mount your "normal" Windows 
partition and read, play, and write files you have stored there
(of course, not all files will be recognized by BeOS).  

But if after booting you find you don't have a lot of disk space 
available, we recommend you purchase the BeOS 5 Pro Edition, 
which isn't limited to 512 megabytes.