Multi-boot win2k/ Red Hat 9/ win98se

[sydspirit2]

Just a quick question:
I already dual boot win2k/ Red Hat and was wondering if I can install win98 to boot, or does win98 need to be installed first. I have no problems with working with partitions and am assuming I will need to put win98 on it's own partition. Thank you.

 

[Palagast]

Sydspirit2,

Windows 98 doesn't support multi-booting by itself. In the case of only w2k and w98, you always install w98 first and then in the setup of w2k, you can tell it to make it multi-boot. I don't have any experience with Linux in the mixture though. If you use use LiLo or something like that, you might be able to create some situation where you can install w98, make it think it's the only OS and then fix the multi-boot part in LiLo.
Bottom line: You can't do this with w98 alone, perhaps it's possible with a trick.

 

[Jump1ng]

It is possible. If you install your OS in the following order it should work no problems.

1. Windows 98
2. Windows 2000 (this should detect windows 98 and let you have a multiboot system)
3. RedHat9 (why not get Fedora Core 2 as this is activily updated albeit not by RedHat but they don't support RH9 anymore either) The Redhat GRUB loader should allow you to specify Windows as an option and if you chose this it during bootup should start the windows 2000 bootloader where you can choose between 2k and 98.

I used to have this setup back in the days and it worked fine. If you wan't to be able to r/w to other partions when in linux I would recommend you to keep your win2k partition as fat32, I know the new kernels have better support for NTFS but I'm not sure if the write works 100% yet. Plus you can read/write from windows 98 aswell.