Seting Up Dual Boot

[jimras]

Hi all.......haven't posted in a while

I am thinking about going with a dual boot so I can have an older OS on the machine so I can

have my grandkids play some of the older games that I have that won't work (no matter what I try)

under XP

I am wondering if I can do this.

My HD has LOTS of room on it but it's formatted NTFS. I have Original disks for DOS 6.2 and for

WIN95 and WIN98SE and I would like to do one of these OS's as a dual boot.

Will the install set up something to allow me to do that?

Will any of these install on a drive that's formatted NTFS?

If it doesn't install any kind of a "loader" then how would I do this?

Last resort, I could buy a small HD and install on that and then just go into

the BIOS and change the boot drive, I suppose.

Any thoughts??

Thanks................jim

[jwbirdsong]

http://www.syrlug.org/docs/HOWTO/MultiOS-HOWTO.html

[TheTerrorist_75]

I would opt for a second hard drive. That is how I have my 98SE and XP dual boot set up. The way I swap drives out it makes it easier not having my XP boot.ini include another OS.

[shanenin]

is reloading XP an option? If so I would do this

I would use fdisk to create a partition large enough for your windows 98se setup, then leave the rest of your drive as unallocated space. Then just install 98se. Then install XP second, choose to create a new partition where the unallocated space is, then install it there. The XP installer will set up the dual boot for you.