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Triple Boot: Dos\Win98\NT4.0
Name: Todd Date: January 27, 1999 at 21:26:16 Pacific
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Can someone give me instruction on how to set up my computer for tripple boot so I have option for Dos, Win98, & NT4.0
Name: Doofus Date: January 28, 1999 at 01:58:50 Pacific
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If you have 3 hard drives the process is simple. Take the hard drives one at a time, and with the drive as the primary master, do a basic install of the OSes on to each of the drives (1 OS to a drive, of course).Then reinstall the drives. After you have auto-detected them, you can boot each one of them by pressing delete at startup or on restart and from the BIOS choosing the drive assignment that will boot the appropriate OS (A,C D,A E,A). If you make one partition on the Win 98 harddrive FAT 16 (any partition less than 512mb under FAT32 becomes FAT16 by default) you will have a partition that both FAT32 and NTFS can read, great for moving files between the 2 OSes. It takes a little while to get used to, but I have found this method very effective and by having the OSes in thier native FATs it elimiates "crosstalk": DOS6.22/Win3x choking on Long filenames, for example. Email me if you have any questions. I am running a Windows for work groups\Win 98\NT 4.0 multiboot myself.
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Response Number 2
Name: tobias Date: January 28, 1999 at 05:42:52 Pacific
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A program called "partition magic" can do it for u!
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Response Number 3
Name: Doofus Date: January 28, 1999 at 16:36:51 Pacific
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Having used Partition Magic myself, I would love to know; how YOU do a multi-boot with it?
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Response Number 4
Name: ISMAIL KECHROUD Date: October 13, 1999 at 15:37:03 Pacific
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Since most computer have 0 an 1 as database open the "0" and try to work on it i am working on a program better than windows 95/98/nt...for future,which the zero element will be a must on computer for DOS
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Response Number 5
Name: Kevin Payne Date: October 29, 1999 at 09:00:58 Pacific
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Two words System Commander. It is the same compant who makes Partition Magic. System Commander has Partition Magic built in, only thing you have to do is install it and it does the rest of the work for you.
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Response Number 6
Name: Pabalo Date: December 14, 1999 at 10:35:17 Pacific
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Okie, Sooooo. Use a large ham sandwich and eat slowly. This will allow, partition magic, time to feck your machine. After completing the operation. Proceed to eat plenty of Push Pops.
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Response Number 7
Name: ahmad Date: January 1, 2000 at 06:34:16 Pacific
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Response Number 8
Name: Matt P. Date: January 25, 2000 at 18:45:57 Pacific
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I take it you want to run a multi-boot to have smoother running of dos games with sound, mouse and cd-rom support?
Do a search in Altavista for "dos multi"
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Response Number 9
Name: ISMAIL KECHROUD Date: January 30, 2000 at 10:43:38 Pacific
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Use my software for multi-boot system. CDGOD55.EXE
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Response Number 10
Name: yahoo2 Date: March 11, 2000 at 17:15:21 Pacific
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Is there a shareware version of a prog. like Sys. Commander?? I hardly want to use a prog. that expires in 30 days.
dear .Mr pls i want from you ms-dos6.11(boot) pls send to from where i dwoen load dos6.11 thanks mok
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Response Number 12
Name: Bob Cooper Date: August 17, 2000 at 16:58:39 Pacific
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Doesn't the boot.dos file in NT give you the option to boot your system to DOS and the boot.ini gives you other options, including multi boot options such as for w2k, different drives, etc. Trouble is, what are the details of doing this. I see that the boot.dos file contains what I guess is a partition table program. . . I am looking for the details. Anyone knowing more please note here or email a link to sierrasnow@home.com. And Thanks to whome ever is providing this forum.
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Response Number 13
Name: Abner Pale Date: August 24, 2000 at 10:53:46 Pacific
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First install DOS after you have formatted your hard drive. Next Partition your drive using the fdisk command. Install Windows 95 on one of the partitions. Next create three boot disks that you need to setup NT4.O, Insert Nt4.0 cd-rom in the drive and type Winnt/ox in the Start/Run box Reboot and insert bootdisk1 at bootup follow setup intsructions install NT4.0 in the unused partition, you can choose to Ntfs or Fat file system after Nt4.0 is installed your computer will be a multiboot system. There are info resources available at Microsoft's website.
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