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Loading win 95 and 98 on the same disk
Name: Rory Date: September 24, 2001 at 14:37:21 Pacific
Comment:
Hi there,
Is it possible to load win 95 and 98 on the same disk? I wouldn't mind having 95 as my default os with option of usin win 98 as a secondary.
I know that the fdisk that came with my win 98 will not allow me to make a non dos partition and that i will need a non dos program to manage wich os will start up and so forth.
Will you leave instructions for me and i will try to locate everything to get it working that way.
Name: bret Date: September 24, 2001 at 15:26:17 Pacific
Reply:
You will need a 'Partition Magager'. If you do a search for that you will find several. A couple good ones are 'Ranish Partition Manager' and 'XOSL'.
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Response Number 2
Name: chrstphr Date: September 24, 2001 at 15:28:22 Pacific
Reply:
As I recall, w98 and w95 will not support multiple OSes, but NT and w2k will. So, you could load NT or 2000 and then both 95 and 98. Also, various Linux/Unix flavors support multiple boots. Finally, there are some cheap or even free 3rd-party multiple boot managers. In any case, you are going to have to do some research and some work. There might also be file system conflicts.
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Response Number 3
Name: rory Date: September 24, 2001 at 18:32:55 Pacific
Reply:
hey bret what do you think of that?
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Response Number 4
Name: bone Date: September 29, 2001 at 01:05:43 Pacific
Reply:
just curious why you would even want to do this? just run Win98 since it's basically the same thing as 95 with less compatibility issues, and more support for newer devices...
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