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Installing NT4 on a 98SE machine

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by wlacomp

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What are the options for installing NT4 and/or Linux on a 98SE machine. I would need the multi-boot option at startup.

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by rudolph(uk)

You need to repartition your hard disk to install Linux (at least two more partitions are needed) It would be better if you also create another partition for NT.
First install NT. The NT boot menu will give you the option Nt / Win 98. Then install Linux in its own partition and install LILO in the Linux partition.
Finally add a line to boot.ini to point to the partition where LILO is. That will give you the three options in the boot menu.

by tigre_269

In regards to NT, I recommend installing NT in a seperate partion or drive, due to the similar directories at the root of the boot(C:\) drive, eg. Program Files. This is dependant on the file system you used when you installed Win 9x, FAT16 or FAT32. NT 4 can see a FAT16 partition, but not a FAT32 partition without third party software.
If Win 9x is installed prior to NT, a multi-boot option will be automatically created in the NT boot.ini file. Within NT, you can set you default boot O.S.

Regarding Linux, I know you can multi boot, I'm just not sure how, but you would definately need to install it on a seperate partition.

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