Is it possible to have a dual boot set up with two copies of Win98

[MadEye2]

Is there any software that will enable me to use two versions of win08 in the same way that different operating systems can be used? I want to be able to set my machine up so it'll boot with one set of drivers for my sequencer software - the APS Live! drivers, and another boot where it'll load up the original SoundBlaster drivers so I don't have any problems with EAX errors with the games I recently bought.

 

[DaFinn]

Win98 😕...

 

[MadEye2]

Yep, Win98

 

[hopejr]

Floppy disks is easiest. Just get one to boot off the floppy and configure msdos.sys to BootGui = 1

 

[MadEye2]

How do I set that up, hopejr? I want it so I have a choice between drivers at boot up - one optimised for gaming and multimedia and one for creativity software.

 

[hopejr]

I think what you're wanting to do isn't a dual boot of Win98 (which is impossible really, except using floppy disks or a weird boot manager), is use hardware profiles. The set up for that is somewhere in System Properties (I haven't used 98 for ages, so I can't remember where). You'll get a menu on startup asking which profile to use, just before the GUI starts.

Otherwise, have two copies of Win98, make a boot floppy, change the WinDir and WinBootDir paths to the path of the one you want to boot from floppy into (i.e. C:\WIN98), and set BootGUI=1 so that it boots into the GUI.

 

[bazcor]

You could try XOSL (free) it is a little hard to set up at first but can boot many OS's with the other partitions hidden or shown as desired. I had a system running that had DOS, win98 and XP selectable, the 98 partition was completely hidden from XP.

http://www2.arnes.si/~fkomar/xosl.org/

 

[MadEye2]

Thanks all. I was wondered what Hardware Profiles were for. I've found out the information about to set them up from Microsoft's site. This should do that trick.

 

[MadEye2]

Using hardware profiles doesn't seem to work. I can set it up so different devices are enabled and disabled, but I cannot use different drivers for the same device for each profile.

 

[hopejr]

it might be best to do what bazcor suggested then

 

[MadEye2]

May just do that. I'm considering making a windows98 cdc and use the empty F parition for it's registry. Ideally I should be using the KX drivers for the SBLive! card, but I can't get the damn things to work.