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Article #2186Re: win95 win98 and win nt4.0 on the same computer
From: Goofy
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 00:00
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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