help me install win98

[comrade]

I'm runnning Win98 (emglish version) now and I want to install Win98SE internation version. How do I this , installing and dual booting? Thanx in advance.

 

[KarsinTheHutt]

It might depend on whether win98SE international tries to overwrite english win98. If I were trying this, I would use Partition Magic to created a separate partition and install win98 Int in the new partition. Then I would install BootMagic so I could choose which version to run at startup.

These are just my sugestions. I've never done this before - be careful and back up all your critical files first!

Good luck

 

[PowerJoe]

I've seen it done - Dual-boot between Win98 hebrew-enabled and Win98 Russian. The guy used some boot manager (I forget which).


edit - I just had an idea how to do it without any thrid-party software. It does require 2 physical HD's, let's assume Win98 English is installed on HD1:

- Connect HD2, disconnect HD1
- Install Win98 international as you normally would
- Connect both HD1 and HD2

Now, you can choose using the BIOS boot order:
"C,A,SCSI" - Win98 English, HD1=C, HD2=D
"D,A,SCSI" - Win98 International, HD2=C, HD1=D

You could have a second partition on the larger HD, which will appear as E on both configs. I wouldn't recommend any more partitions - will increase the thickness of your "alphabet soup".

-PJ