HOW do you dual boot windows 95 and windows98.

Ideal one: Have two harddrives one on the primary and more on the Secondry IDE bus. Next install Win95 on the primary and win98 on the secondry. Enable the HDD you would like to use Idea 2: Buy multi-boot software. Idea 3: Partition your hdd to three drives all primary partitions you will need good partition software, for Windows I would suggest PARTITION MAGIC 4. Partition your hdd Two large and one very small partition set the small HDD as active. Next copy start up files from 98/95 to the small partition and PQ4 dos version. Now start up the computer and make one of the large partitions active, now install win98. after installation hide the partition with 98 on and make the other large partition active. Now install 95. You can swap boot drive by hiding the OS you don't want to boot and making the one you want to boot the boot drive. The small partition is for saftey is anything ever goes wrong like you hide both partitions you always have a partition to fall back on. Is set the two OS's up on a primary Partitions using PQ4 or other Partition software. then just Idea 4: I havn't tried this so don't quote me, If you first install Windows 95 to a directory called WIN95. Then rename "Win.com" from the WIN95 directory to "Win._" next install windows 98 to the windows directory. Now rename your Windows 95 file "Win._" back to "Win.com". Now when you want to boot win 95 boot win98 holding the f8 key and select OLDMSDOS version. I have no idea whether the last idea will work, I have neer multiboot Win95 and Win98 I just don't see the point. I have multi-booted Linux 5.2, WINNT 4 workstation, WINNT 4 Server, WIN98, NOVELL 5 and Win 3.11. The size of the HDD is pretty darn big though. I used hidden partitions to fool the OS's into thinking they were alone. This is a very very brief description I just can't be bothered going into any more detial at the moment.

I have just finished putting 2 copies of Win95 on one disk using shareware. Each one doesn't know the other exists but can see the other partitions if you let them.. It should work for Win95/98 as well. It has been very reliable so far.. If you want more info let me know.

This might be a little bit of a repeat, but I have the simple way of doing three of them from the first Dave. 1. Creat thre primary patitions using a program that does that. Make the first one one meg and make the other two a division of the remaining disk space. Use a boot manager program on the first one meg partition. Install win95 on one and win98 on the other partition. Make the boot mangager partition the bootable one. Just choose each time you boot witch one you need. 2. create Two partitions, one for win95 and one for win98. Make both primaries. Install win95 on one and win 98 on the other. In this case use fdisk to change the bootable partition. 3. Using one partition, install win95 in to a directory named win95 and install windows98 in to a directory called win98. Make the startup menu popup and stay on the screen 30 seconds before it times out. tis will give you time to choose, if you want to boot to the previous operating system. NOTE: on the dual partitions, You might want to make a partition for your progras and daa files. These WILL NOT be primary ones.

Could you not just put a command line in the Autoexec.bat which asked for an option, say, "Boot from Primary or Secondary drives?" which would point the autoexec in the direction of the relevant boot record?

The Microsoft Windows 98 Resource Kit Book Online located in the Tools\Reskit\Help folder on the Windows 98 CD-ROM. Page 204: Windows 98 Setup with Other Operating Systems Book Online: Windows 98 Setup with Other Operating Systems.

Yes you can use an config.sys autoexec.bat and and fdisk script to make your boot menu http://www.angelfire.com/or2/litldebug/menu.html