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R: MSDOS 6.22, Windows 95 OSR 2.5 and Windows 98 SE Multiboot possible?

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Hi,
a thousand years ago I had a Pentium IV machine with 512 MB and I managed to
set up a quadruple/quintuple OS boot.
that machine is long gone  - :-(  , so I can't turn it on to check how I did
it,,,
anyway, as boot manager I used a software called GAG, you can download it
from here, burn it into a bootable CD and from there install it into the PC
MBR:
http://gag.sourceforge.net/

Each OS was its own partition, the boot options were:
- Win 95 C (OSR 2.5) alongside with Windows for Workgroup 3.11, both on DOS
7.1
- Win 98 SE
- Win NT 4.0 Workastation
- A LInux distro, probably Vector or something similar

If I don't remember wrong, on the DOS version I used for Win95/Win3x, I also
installed a TCP packet driver and other DOS network protocols (NetBios) and
I could "exit to DOS" and then browse the Web with Arachne or reach the
other computers in the home network...

it was a real "masterpiece of a retro-machine", I enjoyed it so much for a
couple of years .. then the power supply suddenly died....

Now in 2020, it would be completely useless though...

in any case, "exiting to DOS" from the two Win9x systems (kept separate on
their own partitions) brought to their own version of DOS.
Only Win95 and Wfw 3.11 shared the 7.1 DOS version of Win95 (see article
below).

***  this is just to say the best idea is always to keep things separate....
***

***
If you're interested, you can find instructions to install Wfw 3.11 (with
LFN - Long File Name support) alongside Win9x on the same primary partition
on top of DOS 7.1.
My own article, written ages ago, is here, but it's all in Italian:
http://www.wintricks.it/manuali/Win31-98.html
You need to google to find something in English, many of the links I quote
in my article unfortunately are old or broken...

some other hints are here:
http://wiki.oldos.org/index.html
http://www.win31.de/esoft.htm

Hope I've been of any help.
Cheers
San

***

Supratim Sanyal <supratim@riseupdeleteme.net> wrote in message
rr36me$91l$1@gioia.aioe.org...
> folks - I am not a multiboot expert, and this has probably been beaten
> to death but I am getting confused by all the forum posts.
>
> I installed MS-DOS 6.22, and then Windows 95C on the same partition, all
> good. Then I installed Windows 98SE on a different partition. Still all
> good, except that "Previous version of MS-DOS" from the Windows 98 boot
> menu drops me to MS-DOS 6.22.
>
> Obviously I was wrong in thinking it would drop me into the Windows 95
> boot menu, from which I could choose "Normal" windows 95 or MS-DOS (some
> sort of chain loader).
>
> So - are there any tricks for me to be able to boot into Windows 95 from
> Windows 98, and then from Windows 95 to MS-DOS or stay in Windows 95?
>
> Any advice appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
> Supratim Sanyal

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MSDOS 6.22, Windows 95 OSR 2.5 and Windows 98 SE Multiboot possible? Supratim Sanyal <supratim@riseupdeleteme.net> - 2020-12-12 14:46 -0500
  Re: MSDOS 6.22, Windows 95 OSR 2.5 and Windows 98 SE Multiboot possible? "the F.O." <f.o@forward-observer.net> - 2020-12-13 09:54 +0000
  Re: MSDOS 6.22, Windows 95 OSR 2.5 and Windows 98 SE Multiboot possible? zulu <antani@cazzola.it> - 2020-12-13 16:05 +0100
    Re: MSDOS 6.22, Windows 95 OSR 2.5 and Windows 98 SE Multiboot possible? Supratim Sanyal <supratim@riseupdeleteme.net> - 2020-12-15 00:18 -0500
  R: MSDOS 6.22, Windows 95 OSR 2.5 and Windows 98 SE Multiboot possible? <s@ntrolli.ni> - 2020-12-13 17:43 +0100
    Re: R: MSDOS 6.22, Windows 95 OSR 2.5 and Windows 98 SE Multiboot possible? Supratim Sanyal <supratim@riseupdeleteme.net> - 2020-12-15 00:16 -0500

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