Dual boot (Windows 98 and dos)

How do I setup a dual boot on a win98 notebook. I would like the user to be
prompted to select ms-dos and win98 when he starts the notebook.


NOTE: This notebook also has a built-in cd and 3 1/2 disk drive installed.
I would also like to do this without third-party software.

shawn wrote:
How do I setup a dual boot on a win98 notebook. I would like the
user to be prompted to select ms-dos and win98 when he starts the
notebook.

StartRunmsconfig
General tab
Advanced
Enable Startup Menu

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Your criteria of being prompted to pick a system to load requires a boot
manager. 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
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"shawn" wrote in message
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How do I setup a dual boot on a win98 notebook. I would like the user to
be
prompted to select ms-dos and win98 when he starts the notebook.


NOTE: This notebook also has a built-in cd and 3 1/2 disk drive
installed.
I would also like to do this without third-party software.

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:05:03 -0800, "shawn"
wrote:

How do I setup a dual boot on a win98 notebook. I would like the user to be
prompted to select ms-dos and win98 when he starts the notebook.


NOTE: This notebook also has a built-in cd and 3 1/2 disk drive installed.
I would also like to do this without third-party software.

Do you mean DOS that is a part of Win98 -- or simple old DOS-5/6/6.22?

If it is an old DOS, and you don't want to use the third party boot
managers like BootitNG, as Ron Badour said already, -- you must have the
bootable drive with FAT16 file system. Then it is possible to install an
old DOS and get a native Win98 start menu with one of the choices the
"Previous operating system".

If you mean DOS-7, that is included in Win98 -- you can create
multiconfiguration config.sys and autoexec.bat (native ability of Win9x
and DOS-6/6.22), which will allow you to select boot mode: either usual
Windows (i.e. GUI), or DOS (Command Prompt mode) with all needed drivers
for this mode, loading from DOS branch of multiconfiguration files.

But probably the boot manager (like the mentioned BootitNG) would be the
simplest solution.
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