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Dual booting Win 98 and Win 3.1(DOS really)
Name: Parker Date: August 1, 2000 at 09:57:59 Pacific
Comment:
Anyone know where I can find out how I can dual-boot Windows 98 and Windows 3.1? Thanks.
Name: wong Date: August 1, 2000 at 12:29:07 Pacific
Reply:
Hi, I've heard that bootmagic would do the job. But just out of curiosity, why would you want to stick with windows 3.1 running 16bits operating system, when you could do all with windows 98 32bits OS? I presume that you had some reasons but could you find the alternative route to move yourself forwards? I used to do it using windows NT boot loader, which I installed DOS fist, then windows NT (bootloader), windows 98, triple boot them, then go back to install win31 in DOS and log into DOS when I want to use the good old win31. I've learned the limitations of them and hence got rid win31 altogether.
Wong
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Response Number 2
Name: Alfred Date: August 1, 2000 at 20:33:27 Pacific
inside the file osr2fix.exe is a program hwo makes some changes to the file IO.SYS of DOS 7.10, allowing to install and run Windows 3.x in OSR2/Win98 DOS mode like in earlier versions of Windows 95. Normally, Windows 3.x complains about an incompatible DOS version. If you say: "Wait a minute: shouldn't I re-install OSR2 over an existing DOS 6.x and then use the 'Previous operating System' menu item in Windows 95 boot menu for that purpose ?" - forget about it. This works for the first time attempt, but results in COMPLETE boot failure the next time you reboot your machine. Dual boot is officially not supported in OSR2. Download the program osr2fix.exe from http://www.conactive.com/win95/
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