[MarkoDaGeek]

Alright , I have Windows XP on my 60 GB HDD , and i have Linux Man. 8.1 on a 4 gig HDD , how do i add windows 98 SE to this ?

[Ben Goulbourn]

MarkoDaGeek, on Sep 5 2002, 10:51 PM, said:

Alright , I have Windows XP on my 60 GB HDD , and i have Linux Man. 8.1 on a 4 gig HDD , how do i add windows 98 SE to this ?

buy a new computer and install windows 98
duh

[MarkoDaGeek]

i have another computer , with windows 98 but see , i want it on this one , but im leaning more to windows 2000 or something , becuase i have a few things that work better in older versions ....

[Fygar]

Have you tried partitioning your windows 2000 Drive? That would be the way to do it.

[MarkoDaGeek]

ok , so just get like partition magic and partition the drive , then load it onto the new partition ? ...

Will linux still take over the boot then and give me a choice of my OS ?

[Fygar]

I'm not sure how linux boots and such, I haven't played with it yet. But what you should do is make some 98 boot disks, run those when you turn your computer on, and it'll give you a choice to make another partition and how large you want this partition. Then install 98 on that new partition. Do it that way. I think partition magic might format your drive, I'm not sure...

What happens is that your 60 gb hard drive will have two partitions, which makes the drive act as two separate.

If this all works accordingly (and if linux does what I think it will) everytime you boot up you will get a screen that asks which OS you want to use.

Hope that helps!

[fyrestorm]

MarkoDaGeek, on Sep 5 2002, 08:51 PM, said:

Alright , I have Windows XP on my 60 GB HDD , and i have Linux Man. 8.1 on a 4 gig HDD , how do i add windows 98 SE to this ?

why would you want to add win 98 to those two perfectly fine os?

[Fygar]

Some programs dont' run in NTFS format.

[MarkoDaGeek]

Mp3 player - NOT compatable with XP or linux

CD burner - Is compatable with XP , but has a hard time doing stuff

Web Cam - Not compatable with XP

but i dont think im gonna load 98 , i put my mp3 player on another computer , and im getting a new cd burner soon anyways so ....

[Vetritus03]

me thinks you should have thouht ahead before buying an Mp3 player that wasn't XP compatible. or maybe you should have thought about not installing XP on your entire drive when you still need 98 to do business.
you can't easily install 98 now. Win9x needs to be installed on the primary DOS partition of your drive to work the best. so, in theory you would have installed 98 first, XP next, linux you would have put on your other machine (or installed it last). then XP's or Linux's boot loaders would have done this job for you. XP will not like you tweaking the partitions. you're gonna need a third party loader. perhaps Linux will do it for you. i'm sure you can do anything with open source. well, at least that's what you all say... good luck getting 98 to install as it can't write to anything in your primary partition. DOS based stuff can't do squat to NTFS. good luck file-sharing between the two... that is... unless you formatted your XP drive FAT32. you know... you're running linux, why am i even wasting time telling you this. you should already know this. you are, after all, running an open source OS. you must know more than i.