Dual Booting OS/2 with Win98se

[neildlb]

I know it may seem stupid, but I need to install OS/2 Warp (v4) on a system with Win98 (se)..
Anybody here who can help by providing an outline how to do this, if it is possible ?

 

[TonyRic]

Boot from the 2 OS/2 disks and exit to a command prompt and rin fdisk. Create a Boot Manager Partition (it will create a primary partition about 1GB). Create a partition for Win98 (Primary) and set it to bootable and set the boot manager partition to startable. Reboot the PC with a Win98 Boot disk and run fdisk from there and remove and recreate the win98 partition (unless the one already created is under 2GB then skip this one) and reboot. Format the C: Drive so Win98 can install. Install Win98se to completion. Install OS/2 using the advanced install and set up a Primary Parition for OS/2 and that both the Win98 and OS/2 partitions are listed as startable and the Boot Manager partition is listed as bootable. Reboot and continue the OS/2 installation.

If you run into any problems with the above instructions, I have used OS/2 since the OS/2 2.0 beta days (before the Workplace Shell) and can help you out as necessary with it, email me... I will be happy to help...

Just out of curiosity, what are you doing with OS/2???

 

[neildlb]

I was able to install at last... I decided to start with an empty HD thinking the process would be simpler.

The main problem was an error saying saying that I have less than 100 MB available and OS/2 cannot be installed
--- it seems FDISK is not reading my HD right. I was able to download an updated BASEDEV driver to fix this. I did a few modifications to the config.sys and all was well afterwards.

I installed boot manager first then MSDOS (on the second primary partition). Win98 was later on installed on the same partition.OS/2 installation was done on the first primary partition. boot manager partition was set to startable and the 2 other primary partitions set to bootable.

The exhaustive task was to re-boot multiple times (set installable partition for each OS using the OS/2 disks).

Thanks for your help Tony. I will be supporting bank applications this coming year and I was told there are still some banks in my area using the OS/2 version of the applications. I am actually trying to brush up on OS/2, NT, and DOS since the applications I will be supporting were released on this versions...

 

[TonyRic]

Well, if you need any help, let me know... It will jog my memory as well but it really is a great OS... BTW, what area are you in??? Your profile is not turned on...