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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 |
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If you don't use a bootloader then how do you anticipate being able to
select the operating system you want to load? -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "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 |
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If you are not going to use a boot loader, then the only solution that I
know of would be to install each OS on a different drive or partition and change the boot drive in the BIOS depending on the OS that you want to run. I can't imagine why you would want to do that, but it's possible. Win98 will not create a boot menu but WinXP will. You only need to modify the boot.ini to remove any choice but XP. PattyL "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 |
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