running a 2OS system

[zskillz]

I'm going to be getting a new hdd in the next day or so. I'm presently running win95 on my current system. I would like to run win98se on the new hdd, but I want both hdd's in the same system at least for now. I have no idea how to even go about starting something like this, and I would really appreciate the help.
Thanks
Z

[notreallyme]

I am in a similiar situation. I have just built a 2 HD machine and being the indecisive guy that I am I've decided I want Windows NT 4, Windows 98, and Linux on my machine. Win98 gets the entire Slave HD and Linux and WinNT share the master. I haven't installed Linux yet but I finished with NT and 98 last night and when I rebooted NT's boot loader didn't see 98 on the Slave HD. I'm not sure if I need to configure the boot loader or if this is one of the limitations of the loader. But I'm gonna play with Lilo and some BootMaster utility that came with my Linux Discs. Any ideas? I'll let you know what happens.

[zskillz]

I really don't have any clue how to do this stuff, but I posted this thread in a couple different areas of the forum, and I believe that you should have win98 on the primary, and put NT, and Linux on the slave. Supposedly, NT will recognize that win98 is there if you do it that way. Like I said though... I don't have a clue, this is just what someone else suggested to me.
Z

[notreallyme]

I tried that first and NT complained because it couldn't get its boot loader in place (the primary partition). I was reading one of my NT books though, I never did finish the damned thing, and I know now what I have to do. NT has a Boot.ini file that tells the loader what OpSyses are on the machine and where they are at. It can even span two HDs! So I think I'm in the clear.
In your situation though, I was reading today that root based OpSyses need to be in the Primary partition. In other words if you're going with a master / slave setup I think Win95 has to go on the Master while Win98 can be on the slave . . . I think. Check on this. However you will need some sort of boot loader to choose between the two. Let me know how things work out.

[This message has been edited by notreallyme (edited 07-29-99).]