win95/win98 dual boot works, it's easy :-)

[Greg Baker]

Heh.. pretty innovative.. :)

s.br...@elmshorn.netsurf.de wrote in message
<34cb19a...@news.shlink.de>...
>
>Hi,...
>
>I'v got a working dualboot with win98 and win95.
>It's really simple.
>
>First I had a win95b (osr2) running on my system. I booted to DOS
>and renamed the 'windows'-folder to w95old.
>I then installed win98beta2 in a new folder 'windows'.
>
>After that and the first installations in w98beta2 I booted to
>dos again. I renamed the 'windows'-folder to 'win98b'.
>
>I now installed win95b (osr2) anothertime in an new folder
>'windows'.
>
>Now I have three installationn running. I only need to boot to
>dos first and choose the wanted installation by renaming the
>folders.
>I don't get a time-bomb at startup, only a message, that there in
>an invalid parameter in the msdos.sys. But win98beta2 works
>well... :-)
>
>All installations now use the same installed programms.
>:-)
>I use the old win95 for testing of new programms and drivers.
>
>
>Regards,
> Stefan
>
>
>
>

[bug mouse]

That sounds really complicated to me.....
Why not try installing instead a cheap and cheerful NT instal, after you
installed your different OS thay all appear in the NT boot, and it gives the
choice of which OS you want by priority,,,
I got triple boot on my notebook, and it`s absolutely brilliant, with no
mucking about with ODS, I mean DOS at all....You can even add in the
boot.ini what you want,,and even erase NT all together if you don`t want
it....