creating a dual boot sytem

You might want to create 2 separate partitions on your hard drive. One for dos and windows and one for linux. Format the first one for dos and leave the second one blank. Install windows first and then install Linux. Linux will modify the boot record so that you can multi-boot. Linux will use the second (blank) partition for it's system files.
It's easy. Try experimenting.

Use system commander. It is very easy. Install win9x first then anything else.
They have good tech support which is free for the first 90 days. They will walk you thru the installation.
Avoid the headaces use them to help you.
Good luck.
Mike

Your best bet is to create two drives on your hard-drive and format just one with fat16 or 32. leave the other drive unformatted. Install Win98 to the format drive which will be the C: drive. After that installation then boot of the linux cdrom and start the linux installation, it will recognize your existing partitions for window and the other partition, you can format it in the linux file system and also live a little free space to create the swap file. During the installation, you will be able to configure lilo boot manager so it can boot both linux and win98.If you do it the other way around, it is do-able but a little bit more complex especially since you have to get the windows boot.ini to recognize it

http://www.pcnineoneone.com/howto/dualboot1.html

To dual boot with linux, you will need some sort of partition manager/boot manager software. System Commander works for me.

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