duel boot 98 & 2k

[meaty]

what do you want to set the partitons as with part. magic?
2 primary or 1 primary & 1 extended or what?please help.

 

[compuwiz1]

I clean install first. Use fdisk and make 2 partitions. The size depends on how you want to use the space and the size of the drive. If a big drive, say over 15GB, I like to make 2 equal. You dont need partition magic at all.
Then format both of them. Install win98 first, all drivers, etc.
Once you have installed Win98, insert the Win2k CD, choose clean install, not upgrade. Follow to where you see advanced setup options. Tell it you want to choose the partition to install, then chose the D drive, if that is your second partition. It will install there and install it's own boot manager. When you boot, you will see you have the option of Win98 or Win2k. It's pretty easy. Don't format NTFS or Win98 will not be able to access the D drive.

 

[CyBOrz PaCe]

I was just about to post a related question.

Can you help me? I am very new to dual booting.

I have a 12 gig C drive now. It already is one big partition loaded with Win 98 SE.

I was wondering if I could just add a second HD, D: and format it with NTFS (I am not concerned about file sharing 98 - 2K). I was going to do a full install of Win 2K Server on the D: drive.

Is there a way to do this and then have an option to choose which OS to boot at startup?

Or would using a program like Partition Magic on the existing C: drive be a better way to go?

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

CyBOrz

 

[hominid skull]

CyBOrz PaCe if you going to install win2k on another hard disk then you don't need to worry about a boot loader because win2k will load one automatically. All you have to do is tell the install to do a fresh install to another drive and it's sorted, when you have finished instaling win2k you will have a boot menu that you will be able to alter through the win2k control panel/system applet.

 

[compuwiz1]

Yes, adding a second hard drive as slave will work fine. You still run the setup from Win98, then choose advanced setup options as I mentioned above. During the process, you will not only get to choose the drive to install on, but setup will offer you the option of formatting NTFS. Once it copies files and reboots, you will see your new boot manager. You toggle the arrows to Windows 2000 or Windows 98 for the choice of what to boot. It's easy, you'll see.

 

[CyBOrz PaCe]

Awesome... thankyou.

So I just go into my win98 and run setup from the win2k cd, correct?

I was hoping it worked that way. Figured it would work the same on two separate disks just like two separate partitions.

Thanks Again,

CyBOrz

 

[compuwiz1]

You got it tiger!