dual booting, anyone know of any free dual boot programs?

[aUt0eXebat]

How would I do this? I have 2 HDs, 2 partitions on the 1st, and one on the 2nd... or should I just go with using 1 HD, and 3 partitions? all HDs are partioned and ready to formatt, so how would I go about doing this?

*edit: changed subject, look at my 2nd post please.

 

[AndyHui]

Win98SE and WinME won't do the boot menu like Win2K does....essentially these two are the same OS.

You are going to need to use a 3rd party boot manager for these 2 to coexist.

Win3.11 is not really an OS as such, and sits over the top of DOS. It will quite happily sit on a partition that Win98SE or WinME are on, so long as you give it a different directory name. Remember that Win3.11 can't really cope with FAT32, so you have to be careful.

 

[aUt0eXebat]

ok, so I will have to get a boot program, i know there are some free ones, anyone know what the name or links to some good free boot proggys?

I am going to forget about 3.11 for now. I just wanted to mess around with it a little bit.

 

[doug]

All these should be free:

Extended Operating System Loader (XOSL)
http://www.xosl.org

Ranish Partition Manager (includes a boot manager)
http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/

http://symon.da.ru/

http://elm-chan.org/fsw/mbm/mbm_e.html

 

[TatSteeL]

I've use the bootpart from Winimage and it works great.

 

[SUOrangeman]

I am under the impression that bootpart will only add other OSes to the NT4/2K boot loader.

-SUO

 

[MGMorden]

XOSL is what you want. Best boot loader I've ever used (and I've used a lot of them. Beats BootMagic hands down IMO). link

 

[danielshoes]

Another vote to XOSL. Now released the 1.1.5 version, more improved.

It is really cool. I already use it. The interface is user-friendly, it comes with an html manual and a built-in partition manager called "Ranish partition manager".
I Run Win98se, WinMe, Win2k and Linux. It manages all easily!