Dual Booting Windows XP and 95

[adosorken]

Zack: Is there any particular reason why you are using Win95 as opposed to Win98? Win98 is bootable from the cd, less prone to system crashes and does not require a floppy.

It could be that his old computer had win95 on it

Then again, the download from kazaa may be smaller :lol:

I use lilo as my boot manager, it's simple enough to make partitions, but I don't know if it works with windows or not.

LILO should have no problem working with Windows. It has a pretty good manual, so read it.

[Zack]

eQuuskia: OK, where do I get VMWARE. And will it simulate COMPLETE MS-DOS/Windows, including things like config.sys, and most standard msdos device drivers?

[eQuuskia]

Zack: You can obtain a trial version at www.vmware.com. If you would like to use the software beyond the 30 day evaluation period, pm me for further assistance. And all the answers to your questions are yes. You can run any OS inside the VMware, since it is a virtual machine program.

[SJ Zero]

AHH! EVIL!

Don't even THINK about running windows 95 on a machine capable of windows XP. Get Windows 98 instead. That way I won't have to hunt you down and kill you for crimes against humanity.

The best way to do the dual boot is to forego partitioning altogether. Install windows 98 on your machine, then install XP. XP will handle the bootloader stuff so you can dualboot, just remember to install XP to a directory not called c:\windows. c:\winxp will do.

After that, just remember that you have to install the applications for both OSes. A program you installed in XP won't be installed in 98, or vice versa. After that, it's all smooth sailing.

[oracle]

LILO should have no problem working with Windows. It has a pretty good manual, so read it.

Neato I might have a look at VMware actually... maybe I could set me up a DOS partition/thing/whatever to run QB games on