Dual Booting 98 SE and ME question

[wjsulliv]

For work I need to be able to boot 98SE, ME, 2k, and XP Pro. I've dual booted 9x/Me and 2k/XP before so I understand the whole install 9x/Me then 2k/XP to get the ntloader boot menu.

Question:
How would I get 98SE and Me to dual boot?

 

[SoulAssassin]

You might be better off looking at vmware or multiple machines and a KVM. What your proposing sounds like a major headace.

 

[wjsulliv]

Unfortunately it has to be all on one PC. To make things worse it actually has to be on an IBM 390E laptop...

 

[Homerboy]

www.bootdisk.com
maybe they can help you

 

[SoulAssassin]

Originally posted by: wjsulliv
Unfortunately it has to be all on one PC. To make things worse it actually has to be on an IBM 390E laptop...

Throw a blanket party for your boss and then look further into vmware.

 

[wjsulliv]

So are you guys saying that it is not possible to have a system boot 98SE and ME and XP/2000, etc?

I was thinking I could do the following:
1) Install 98SE on a drive.
2) Install 2000 on a drive.
3) Install XP on a drive.
4) Backup the mbr.
5) Install ME
6) Restore the backed-up mbr and add the me drive?

Will that work?

 

[SUOrangeman]

Because Win9x and WinME are DOS-based, you cannot "naturally" install more than one of them on one hard drive. It is possible, but you will need third-party software like BootMagic (part of PartitionMagic package) or System Commander. These tools will, in essence, hide Win98 from WinME (and vice versa). Multi-booting any versions of NT (NT4, 2K, XP, Server 2K3) and one DOS-based Windows (again, 95, 98, 98SE, ME) can be done "naturally" without any third-party tools.

-SUO, currently multi-boots ME, 2K, XP, and 2K3 (with Linux and FreeBSD for good measure)

 

[PHiuR]

Originally posted by: wjsulliv
So are you guys saying that it is not possible to have a system boot 98SE and ME and XP/2000, etc?

I was thinking I could do the following:
1) Install 98SE on a drive.
2) Install 2000 on a drive.
3) Install XP on a drive.
4) Backup the mbr.
5) Install ME
6) Restore the backed-up mbr and add the me drive?

Will that work?

get a laptop for each O/S...less headache...hehe

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

May I ask as to why you need to dual-boot 9x/ME? They are virtually the same thing with just few tweaks here and there.

 

[FreakyGuy]

I'm telling ya Ranish can do it all!

Google Ranish.

 

[wjsulliv]

Testing purposes.

I have to be able to proove that user issues are not related to the OS. So while 98 and Me are basically the same, I have to load each on something and be able to run it.