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Re: win95 win98 and win nt4.0 on the same computer

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From: Goofy
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 00:00
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You could also use system commander as well, probably an easier way to
do it from what I hear.

Goofy

On Mon, 27 Apr 1998 05:41:04 +0000, burd <xxx@nospam.com> wrote:

>Dave Urig wrote:
>
>> Stephan Leuenberger wrote:
>>
>> > I'd like to have ,win95, win98 and win nt4.0 on the same computer, what is
>> > the easyest and best way to do this? with several harddisk or some software?
>>
>> I have the same question, but win95 and OS2.  Two seperate drives, one OS per
>> drive.  How can you set it up to dual boot, mainly win95, but OS2 when needed?
>
>For OS/2 & Win95, you need OS/2's boot manager. This takes a small partition, so
>you have to set up OS/2 first, and then add W95. When W95 has finished istalling,
>you need to reactivate the OS/2 boot manager - see the readme.txt file in your
>Windows directory for this.
>
>For Win98, Win95 & NT, you have to install them into separate directories. If you
>have Win95 installed, and then add WinNT, you'll have a choice to load NT or
>"DOS" from your boot. In fact DOS is set up in the boot.ini file, and points to
>the Win95 startup. If you then install Win98 into a different directory, you can
>edit boot.ini, and add a line to point to that startup - I can't remember the
>format, but just copy the original and edit it appropriately.
>
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Subject: Re: win95 win98 and win nt4.0 on the same computer
Date: 1998/04/28
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