multi-boot in win98

[cc]

I try it at win95 in the past, but now I'm totally forget. I want do it with win98se and chinese win98, please help! Thanks.

 

[SUOrangeman]

Use BootMagic (comes with PartitionMagic) or System Commander and have fun!

-SUO

 

[Floyd]

You can also do it by simply changing the HostWinBootDrv= entry in msdos.sys. I'm doing it right now with standard Win98 and Shane Brooks' Win98 Lite. I simply created two versions of msdos.sys and swap them out with a batch file depending on which OS I want to boot into next time. You can also create seperate autoexec.bat and config.sys files for each OS and swap them around with the batch file.

For some stinking reason, BootMagic v2.0 would not work (Win2k is also on this system, perhaps that has something to do with it...?). So I finally just did it the hard way. I'd be glad to send you a zipped copy of my boot files so you can adapt them to your system, just let me know.

It's possible that international versions of Windows have differences significant enough that my method would not work, so you might want to try a third-party application first. It probably goes without saying, but no matter which method you choose, it's always a good idea to image/ghost your existing OS before tinkering with multi-boot setups. IMHO, more than anything else, it allows you to do some things you might otherwise be too apprehensive to try.

Best regards,
Floyd

 

[cc]

SUOrangeman,
If I want do it in 6.4GB HDD, 2GB for Win2k in NTFS, 2GB for Win98ME in Fat32, 2GB for Chinese Win98 in Fat32 and other for Dos6.22 in Fat16, how to do it?

 

[AndyHui]

cc: what do you need Chinese Windows 98 for? If you are only going to need it for typing and reading Chinese documents, you can do that perfectly well under Win2K and Office2K with the Chinese Multi-Language Pack for O2K. That way you can get around needing Win98 Chinese.

 

[cc]

AndyHui,
I use it for playing some special Chinese Game that njwin or other program can't support.