http://www.xs4all.nl/~laar2002/tweak/install-win-98-with-xp.html
I knew that I had seen something when I was first looking at doing a dual boot. In my case, I had win 98 already installed so I did it in the recommended mode. This link will describe doing it the reverse.
Keith
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Roger:
If that system that you found on Google works,
please let us know what needs to be done.
If you will re-read my reply to you under the subject
of disk manager dated 03/08/05 you will see that
I finally got three operating systems on three
different partitions with a steep learning curve.
That steep learning curve included exactly what you did with win 2000 and win 98. When you
installed win 98 on the second partition without
making it the active partition, win 98 had to
go through the other partition which was active.
In doing so it destroyed the win 2000 installed
on that partition. I used the repair feature of
win 2000. I first chose use the control console .
I found out that this was a fancy name for the
keyboard with a prompt but did not have a clue
as to what commands were available. I went back
an chose to let it do the repair however it wanted.
I had to do it twice. The first time
it did not work. I do not remember being
offered a dual boot system after the repair.
Thomas said that win 2000 offered a boot manager
for a dual boot system but I have not been able to
find it.
I think I read somewhere that for dual booting of these operating systems, that it can be done by installing both of them on the same partition in the correct order. Is this the system that you found on Google?
Wally
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 21:10:37 -0600 "Roger Carnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
Thanks Keith...
I'm replying to my own post since I kinda put the buggy before the horse....
I did a search on google after the fact and found some info there on how to
make this work.
Sorry to bother you with this post...If I can't make the other info work, I
may post this again.
Thanks,
Roger
----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Carnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 7:27 PM
Subject: PCWorks: Dual Boot - Win2000 : Win98SE
Hello,
Is their any trick to making a dual boot , Win2000 and Win98SE work?
The PC is an Athlon 1200 with an ASUS A7A266 mb, 512 DDR Ram.
I have 3 partitions on a 25 gig drive, all FAT32. I installed Win 2000 on
drive C:\ first.
That went OK and it worked. I then installed Win 98SE on drive D:\.
That went OK except when I boot up, it goes directly to Win 98 without
giving me a
choice of OS. Here's where I probably screwed up...I thought I would try to
fix it and used the "fix installation" option on the Win2000 install CD. I
went into that and selected "repair an installation" and then selected
"using the control console". I chose the command "fixboot" and ran it. It
did its thing and now when I boot up I get the choice of Win2000 or Win98,
with Win98 being the primary choice. If I pick Win 2000, it loads just fine.
If I pick, Win98, I get an I/O Error for the boot sector. I decided tonight
to reload Win 98SE on drive D:\ and have done that now. I'm back to the part
now of where it boots directly to Win98 without giving me a choice of OS. I
would like to be able to have a dual boot with Win 2000 being the primary
selection. Do I need to install some other boot manager? I figured the one
in Win 2000 would be able to handle this. Any thoughts appreciated...
--
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