Dual Booting - Possibly Tri-Booting?
I'm trying to "Dual Boot" using an older version of Win98 and a "newer"
version. I also have XP that I wish to install, along with the two versions of 98, but I might not. What is the best way to install each of these OS's and not have to have a boot loader at startup? I know that when I install XP, it will automatically install the boot loader, but I'd like to bypass that also. Any help will be most appreciated. Al |
Get a boot manager so you can select which program will start at boot and
partitioning program so you can create separate primary partitions for each system to be installed to. I use: BootIt Next Generation is available from: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ and it does partitioning, makes a compressed image, does many other partitioning chores and is a boot manager. It is not quite as easy to use as Partition Magic but it is half the cost and has more features. Unlike the crippled PMagic demo, BING is a *full function* demo you can try for FREE for 30 days. The web site has a lot of support articles. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "AlleyCat" wrote in message ... I'm trying to "Dual Boot" using an older version of Win98 and a "newer" version. I also have XP that I wish to install, along with the two versions of 98, but I might not. What is the best way to install each of these OS's and not have to have a boot loader at startup? I know that when I install XP, it will automatically install the boot loader, but I'd like to bypass that also. Any help will be most appreciated. Al |
AlleyCat wrote:
I'm trying to "Dual Boot" using an older version of Win98 and a "newer" version. I also have XP that I wish to install, along with the two versions of 98, but I might not. What is the best way to install each of these OS's and not have to have a boot loader at startup? I know that when I install XP, it will automatically install the boot loader, but I'd like to bypass that also. Any help will be most appreciated. Al I do it a different way than most people and in that way I don't have to deal with any proprietary bootloader screens, etc; and has other advantages as well. I triple boot between 98SE, W2K, or WXP on the same HD all without a bootloader installed was always my personal choice. You can install whatever OS combination you wish but for the latter then would need to be done in a specific way as to bypass its own bootloader, and that's to isolate their install by hiding 'All' other partitions available at installation time so that the stock bootloaders won't install tampering with the other partitions as they certainly would otherwise. To switch between OS's I use the simple approach by utilizing the pqboot32.exe in windows (or pqboot.exe for dos) which both these very small non-install self-run program files comes with partition magic or you can easily acquire them separately. Copy pqboot32.exe to C:\Windows for 9x, and for 2K/XP it can go anywhere; make a bat file with the line: pqboot32.exe /m (designates not hidden) ...and shortcut to it from wherever. When you start your computer it will always boot directly to whatever OS was left active on C:\ at its last use (or can shutdown designate next boot.) Switching from one OS to the other while in the other is just one click of that ..bat or it's shortcut. Rick ......ps, also doing it that way for users of disk imaging programs allows total freedom to swap any one of the current or previous backup OS partition images, in or out, backwards or forwards at any stage of their evolution independently without interference in any way from any of the other OS's being present. Total Freedom. |
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