I have an old computer I want to set up a dual boot with the following OS'S. Win 95 Win 98 Win98 SE Win Me Win 2000 Win XP and Ubuntu Linux. Can I do a dual boot on all the 9x os's? Like 95 - Me? Maybe I need a boot manager? Another question doese linux go last? Jesus Loves You! Keyboard not detected. Hit F1 to Continue. BREAKFAST.SYS HALTED Cerial port not Responding!!

You will need a boot manager to boot to all those. Win95 and 98 versions can't use the Windows boot manager as they are basically the same OS. Google for Boot Managers free. Why do you want to boot to all those similar OSes?

That's not a dual-boot scenario cause you listed more than two. Why would you want all that redundancy? What do you have against 3.1 and NT? EEOC

Like OTH says, 95/98 are essentially the same (as are 2K/XP). I'd suggest sticking with a 98/XP/*nix triple-boot (which you might get away without any boot manager). And yes, it'd be almost mandantory to drop whatever distro of Linux on last (preferrably on another drive if possible). Given your system specs (I'll assume 1.0 Hz means 1GHz) you might want to consider a faster machine for XP or a heavy Linux distro...

As was said above, why would you possibly need/want all those OS's, especially when many of them are so closely related? Go with 98SE/XP/Linux. If you insist on numerous OS's, here's a free boot manager that accepts up to 9: http://gag.sourceforge.net/ BTW, you didn't list your RAM amount. XP needs at least 512MB to run well. Same can be said for Linux, but it depends on the distro. 95/98/98SE/ME have problems with 512MB.

No need for a faster system for XP. It runs like a charm with XP. I have the memory maxed to 512 MB. I may just stick with 98 XP and linux. I just miss 98 and XP so much and would like to still use it. I do have games that do not work at all in XP they only work with 9x/dos really no need to do all the 9x versions I was just thinking out loud. Jesus Loves You! Keyboard not detected. Hit F1 to Continue. BREAKFAST.SYS HALTED Cerial port not Responding!!