dual booting from Win95 to Win98???

[zeek]

FREE SEX!! advice for anyone who is confuzed as I am about running Win95 and 98 on the same drive. Are there any possible booting techniques to enable Win95+Win98 to run on the same computer/diskdrive???

[Scott Newton]

OK... I am not very 98 inclined but, I don't think it would work running on the same partition. I think the DLL's and EXE's would overright eachother etc...

Like I said....I am not very 98 inclined.

If this works out....How do I get her to want to swallow? http://www.hardwarecentral.com/discussion/biggrin.gif

[Eccentric]

zeek,
It's not possible...... well not supposed to be. But however, I've seen it done. You've got to do some tweaking. Go to the Microsoft site and look up an something on Dual booting 98/95. There's a step by step guide on there site. When I used to do technical support, we set up all of the machines in our division to boot 98/95/3.1/NT, using that guide.

[Stile]

Why on earth would you want it to dual boot Win95/98? Unless you are doing support for the 2 different operating systems and need to see how the screens are different, then what is the point?

Windows messaging is on the 98 cd, you just have to look for it. That is the only reason I can think of that you might think you need win95 if you have 98.

[Shiraz]

You need to edit MSDOS.SYS.. I cannot remember which Multi Line exactly. Best
is create two partitions one for 98 and
one for 95. Its is easier to dual boot with
OSR2 the OSR1/FAT16 Windows 95. But it can
be done...

[Stile]

The line is...

BootMulti=1

But I still do not know why anyone would want to dual boot win95/98.

Seems absurd.

[Geoff]

it seems absurd because it is absurd http://www.hardwarecentral.com/discussion/wink.gif

[H]

have any of you thought that teachers or it-advisors may have need to boot all os´s??? i would like to have a menu that enables me to boot any os: DOS, win3.11, win95, win98, winNT 4.0 and winNT 4.0 server. can anyone help me? as a help, i´m not a teacher or it-advisor, but i´m very interested to make that kind of multi-boot system.

or are you all people so absurd???!!

[Zeke]

You can do it quite easily using Partition Magic [or System Commander, I imagine] but I'm surprised you'd want to.

You can have up to 4 primary partitions on one drive, but sometimes you need to allocate one for your boot management software, leaving 3 partitions avail for "fussy" OSes like DOS and Win, that usually have to be on the first physical HD. [It is possible, BTW, with PM4.x to have 98 on one HD and 95 on another physical HD, but that's a long story!]

When you use PM, create the primary partitions you need on drive #1. Each partition will use the C:\ identifier when it is the *active* partition. All other primary partitions will be *hidden* from the active partition. There's no sharing data between Win95 and Win98, since the active partition doesn't even *know* the other ones exist.

If you must share data, you have to create a logical partition inside an extended partition, (preferably using FAT16) for shared data storage.