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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. |
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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 -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.05... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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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 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 "shawn" wrote in message ... 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. |
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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. -- Mikhail Zhilin http://www.aha.ru/~mwz Sorry, no technical support by e-mail. Please reply to the newsgroups only. ====== |
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