Is there any limitations to making a new system dual boot

Hi

I have a customer who would like a new system built for him but would like
it to have dual boot of Win98 and WinXP. He has told me that he tried to do
this himself on one of his machines but got a message about the clock speed
being too fast. He was a bit vague and couldn't give me any more
information but he failed to get the system working.

So my question is this - if I build a new system for him would there be any
reason that I couldn't make it dual boot. Is there any limitations that I
am not aware of?

Thanks
Lizzieb

 

Install 98 first, then XP. It will automatically set up dual boot.

 

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In addition to the other comments, stay away from SATA drives. Win98 and
98SE don't have built-in drivers for SATA and there isn't any easy way
I'm aware of to provide one, short of making some kind of custom boot
floppy with a SATA driver on it (if you can find a DOS mode driver).

Other than that, Install 98SE first in it's own FAT32 partition and then
put XP in a separate partition.

You may also want to have a 3rd FAT32 partition that can be read from
*either* O/S in case your customer needs to move data back and forth
between O/S's.

John

 

Hi Folks,

Have you ever thought of installing XP as a host OS, installing MS
Virtual PC (VPC) 2007 (a freebie) and installing Win 98 as a guest OS?
I've played a bit with VPC 2004 SP1 and its not too bad. It's a big
download, unfortunately. Give the following link a check.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx

It might solve the speed problem in Win 98.

Enjoy

Rick

 

Barry Watzman wrote:

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Hi Barry,

No argument about that. You could give VMWare or Parallels a spin ($$$).
Just my $0.25 on that one.

If Win 98 is having a problem with "fast" CPUs, I thought I heard of
some kind of app (sorry my memory is bad) that would permit one to
"downshift" CPU speed. Though that was a loong time back.

Rick