[diamondgeezer]

Hokay, I managed to get XP and 98 sitting on the same disk, but now I'm having trouble starting XP. 98 boots OK, and I've tried a couple of different boot managers, but XP refuses to boot when I try and load it.

My theory is that this is because the boot managers are DOS based and XP is sat on an NTFS partition, but since my knowledge of computers has been garnered form the back of cigarette packets I may well be talking out of my arse. Anyway, the point is I need a boot manager that is proven to be capable of loading both 98 and XP, and is free. Cookie to the first person link me one.



More importantly, I now have C&C running under 98, which was the main point of the exercise

[Setekh]

Actually, I'd be interested if anyone could find one too (I tried to dual boot the same operating systems a few months back without success. In the same boat, I guess ).

[Fury]

Dual booting is easy if you do it right way.
It is recommended to have own partition for each OS. But C: is recommended to be left FAT16 or FAT32, preferably FAT16.

First you install Win98 to D: and after that, you install XP to E:.
It should work without problem, XP bootmanager shows up OS'es in startup.

Unfortunately I don't know any free and good bootmanagers, sorry.

In short:
C: is FAT16 and contains bootfiles and other required system files. This partition does not need to be big.
D: is FAT32 and W98 is installed here.
E: is NTFS and XP is installed here. If you want to be able to browse files in E: while running W98, you can instead use FAT32 for E:.

[diamondgeezer]

OK, crisis averted. Seems that when I installed 98, it buggered up the XP install. The solution was for me to reinstall XP. Oh well... live and learn

So now I have a hunky-dory double boot, and I get to keep the cookie for myself... *crunch crunch*... yum

[Fury]

NEVER install an older OS if you have newer already installed. It will **** up booting at very least.

When you want multiple OS'es in one system, start installing from the oldest OS first when last being the newest OS.

When subject being Windows OS'es, that is. Don't know how to install when of the the OS'es is linux or some else. I believe linux can be started from a bootdisk in any case, and also has some sort of "fix bootloader" thingy...

[an0n]

Get GRUB, it's pretty.

*had a quaruple boot working for a while*

Win98 SE
Win2000 (I think)
RedHat 7.1 (mighta been 7.2)
FreeBSD 4.3 (I think)

Or was it 3? I installed a few OS's, then went for one more and my computer died. I think I ****ed-up the stuff in the boot-sector some when I went for the final one.

Anyway, now I run Win98 SE and RedHat 7.2 under GRUB, coz it's pwetty and easy to use.

Just install everything oldest to newest then run the RedHat installer. I'm reasonably sure you can install GRUB on its own, and it'll auto-thingy to have all the OS's selectable on boot-up, and it's a piece of piss to change the default boot-up OS.