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A question on how to setup a dual boot

Instan00dles

Golden Member
Alright my friend has windows xp installed on one hard drive and he has another hard drive that he wants to have dos 6.22 and windows 98 installed in a dual boot. I am wondering if I can partition and setup the second hard drive to have dos and win98 installed and dual boot?
 
both dos and windows need to be on the c: drive. perhaps the simplest way to do this would be setup the dos/98 drive as the master drive, and your first boot drive. Then install XOSL onto that drive, and setup from there.

You could also do a more involved approach. I believe you would still need to setup the dos/98 disk as the first boot drive and you would need the windows xp install cd, then you would do a fixmbr, a fixboot, and a bootcfg from the recovery console command line and fill in the options. You also might need to edit a file to get 98/dos to work together well. Basically what you're doing is reinstalling the ntloader onto the new drive, setting up the boot.ini to boot to either xp or 98, and then if you selected 98 you would be given another boot screen where you could choose safe mode and all that stuff along with dos 6.22. as you can see, a much more involved process.
 
Using a boot loader of some type would be useful. If the XP partition is NTFS, you might be able to get away with using the NT OS loader which he already has.

Otherwise, you'll need to do some partition hiding. I know that PowerQuests's BootMagic will do the trick, but I'm sure that there is some free software that will do this.
 

For simplicity, you might want to look into having multiple hdds & removeable drive bays so you could mount as much hdds/OSes as you please.
 
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