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Instaling NT4 & Win98, can someone help me out??? PART 2

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CourtDOG

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Okay, I'm willing to go through all of the hassel it will take to FDISK, erase, partition, install win98, install NT4 Wrkstation. I have a single 6.4 Gig HD and I want to install WIN98 and NT4 on the same physical HD. BUt of course I have thought of a few new questions;

1. How does the boot startup know which o/s to switch too?? Can I set one as the default, or will I always have to pick from a list each time I turn on my PC?

2. Will my Win98 suffer becuse I will run it in FAT16, as compared to now which is is FAT 32?

2A. Will I have to partition my Hard drive 3 times (I have a 6.4gig HD), because doesn't Fat16 only allows 2048MB size HD MAX??

2B. I have a CD-R drive(drive D🙂 and a CD-RW drive (Drive E🙂. When I redo all of this stuff, can I set the first 2 partitions as drives C:, & D: and then the two CDr/w srives as Drive E; & F: and then have the last in NTFS as drive G: ???

2C. Will I have to create any kind of special startup .ini file so that DOS will know which o/s is the default and which needs to be switched to??

3. Will there be problems when my new HD has Win98 and I install all of my applications and Net type software; when I'm in Nt4 will I not be able to install some of the software I use for my Win98 computer? Or when I'm in NT4, will I be able to access/or open and run applications off of my FAT16 partition that would be DRIVE C:\ from within NT Workstation, or does the application MUST be instaled on the same partition that NT Workstation is for it to run properly, while I'm booted into NT4??

4. Since I have SDSL, I also have it hooked up to a network card, will there be problems or conflict with this, as maybe the NIC card has win 98 drivers, but maybe NT4 will try to take over the card??

5. Right now I only have NT4 WRKST, but in a few days I will have NT4 Server, can I install both NT server & NT workstation on that single drive partition? Will I boot up with 3 diffrent choices of O/S; WIN98,NT Server 4 & NT Workstation 4.

6. I will only be using the last HD partition to practice NT stuff, and I know that I will be selling my self a bit short, as I will only be using NT on a single computer that is not Networked, but I need some practice. My question is, I don't plan on installing any other software on the same drive as NT, so what would you say is the minium HD space I will need to run NT workstation & server on the same drive?? 1Gig? the full 2Gigs, to optimaly have WRK/Server on the same partition?
 
Ok then if you choose you are going through all the hassles to fdisk your HD. Here are some answers for your question.
1. First you have to install win98, (winnt4 wks and then winnt4 svr) I think the last two can be switched the order. And yes you will need to choose which OS you want to run every time you turn on your computer. If you only have 2 win98 and nt4 then nt4 would be you default. But you can change the default. I forget how to change it so I could not give you the detail. NT loader will automatically recognize your boot HD(so you can put it on D or G, it doen't matter). Win98 need to be placed in first partition (C).

2. the only drawback using FAt16 I could think that your file will need more room and win98 I think will run rather slower with FAT16.

2A. yes you have to partition 4 since FAT16 only recognize 2GB max

2B. It's possible to do that.

2C. Nope you don't need it. winnt will take care of it for you.

3. Nope. You cannot run application you install in win98 if you boot with winnt and vice versa. Because some windows applications when you install it, it will copy some DLL in the windows directory. (That's why some people call it DLL HELL).But you can still see all the data in the partition. And the application between win98 and winnt I think is totally different in architecture.

4. Since NT doesn't have plug and play and auto detect so If you install the OS without NIC, I think it won't recognize the NIC if you plug in after you install the OS.

5.You can do that. But in my opinion I think you should work with NT4 wks first learn it and pass the test then take the NT4 server. So use just dual boot win98 and nt4 wks. then after you pass the test upgrade the nt4 wks to server.

6. There is a good article
winmag articleyou have to take a look.
 
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