Dual Boot - XP / Win98SE

TerryHough · Post by **TerryHough** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 6:41 pm

Does anyone know if it is possible to create a Dual Boot System with Windows XP and Windows 98SE. If so, could you give me a hint on
how to do it?

I need to test some of my software on XP and don't really want to
buy a separate system just for that.

TIA
Terry

GPI · Post by **GPI** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 9:42 pm

Install win98se and THEN install winXP. Maybe you should use PartitionMagic or something like this to make a partition smaller.

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 10:59 pm

terribly simple

i'm running multiboot's now for years

it's easiest if you use a partition manager (as partition magic)

in a nutshell:

1. install some os on part of your drive
2. install a partition manager
3. make new partion and hide your first partition
4. install another os

i prefer to start with a win98 install on drive 1 partition 1, followed by any other os in the next partition, i never share root partitions between os's

having win98 on partition one means i have good access to things like ghost etc. from a dosprompt

the first partition of drive 2 i make a primary as well, so the d: drive is shared by all os'es for temp and swap (if it's fat32 that is)

i use vamos as a bootmanager, it just depends on what you are used to and what you prefer

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 11:10 pm

Or get VMWare... It's fun to run OSes at the same time! Wheee!

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 9:54 am

karbon_wine_fun = not(fun)

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 5:27 pm

wine != VMWare!

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 10:18 pm

if wine <> vmware then wine ~ vmware

J. Baker · Post by **J. Baker** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 2:28 am

If you don't have, make a WIN 98 startup disk. Use the FDISK command and create another partition. Then install XP on that partition. Make sure you leave it as a FAT file and not NTFS, although I know how to uninstall a NTFS partition. It's just a pain to do but some what simple.

J. Baker · Post by **J. Baker** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 4:03 am

After posting, I went got some better information for you.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/ ... tiboot.asp

TerryHough · Post by **TerryHough** » Thu Oct 23, 2003 5:16 pm

J. Baker wrote:After posting, I went got some better information for you.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/ ... tiboot.asp

Thanks, I found the same thing myself finally.

Terry

sec · Post by **sec** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 5:39 am

but can share foders/files bettwen window2000 host and linux guest?
i try but don't done

(i am only share over /dev/fd0)
anybody do that , plz tell me know?

thanks

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 9:14 am

you can share files between the two in two ways:

enhance linux with a driver that can see windows volumes

or

enhance windows with a driver that can see linux volumes

i've done it a long time ago, but forgot how i did it

sorry, but one thing i remember is that it doesn't work will all file systems and not all systems suppert reading AND writing

don't the newer installs have this as an option? i think i saw something like this in one of the installs i tried...