In this article I assume the user is familiar with the idea of a host name / domain name mapping. It is typically referred to as a "hosts" entry because the entry is made to a file usually called "hosts". I won't go into the details of what or why you might actually want to do this as it would require writing a document on how the Internet works, which is way beyond the scope of this simple HOW TO.

To setup a hosts entry do the following:

In this article I assume the user is familiar with the idea of a host name / domain name mapping. It is typically referred to as a "hosts" entry because the entry is made to a file usually called "hosts". I won't go into the details of what or why you might actually want to do this as it would require writing a document on how the Internet works, which is way beyond the scope of this simple HOW TO.

My workstation at work came with a 1.2g hard drive. After I figured out I could conserve space by using smaller partitions I began to wonder what I could do with some of the extra space. To make matters more interesting I usually use a second computer to test installs of software that I write for the company. I ended up asking myself, wouldn't it be more efficient if I had two Windows 95 setups on the same machine? How could it be done? It would also be nice to have a Windows 3.1 setup available for testing as well.

* NOTE *: Although I discovered this back in the Win9x era it is still applicable today. Most modern flash drives ship with FAT16 as the installed file system. All of the calcualtions below still apply. Reformatting with an alternate file system (FAT23, NTFS, EXT2, ...) will improve storage capacity tremendously unless you are packing large files. However I saw a noticeable improvement in the number of MP3s I could pack with a switch to FAT32. So read on to find out why...