On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 08:55:41PM +0300, Mike Singer wrote:
> Roman Black wrote:
> > Dominic Stratten wrote:
> > >
> > > Roman - why not go for a dual boot machine -
> > > put Windows 2000 on one partition and
> > > windows 98/95 on the other ?
> >
> > Hi, sure dual boot is a good idea sometimes. :o)...
>
>    As for me, dual Win2K and Win98/95 is a pointless
> idea. Win98/95 require first partition be FAT, if I'm not
> mistaken. With FAT - first partition Win2K can't be
> reliable. And all the mess with two Windows folders.
>

Not a problem at all, if you use eg LILO. It is able to change partitions
dynamically at the startup...
Below is the sample from lilo.conf taken form one of my multiboot
machines it hides the Win98 partition when booting Win2k, and
hides Win2k partition when booting Win98. Works perfectly...

Some other boot managers are even more powerfull.

other=/dev/hda1
        label = d
        table = /dev/hda
        change
          partition=/dev/hda1
            set=win95_lba_normal
            activate
          partition=/dev/hda2
            set=ntfs_hidden
            deactivate
other=/dev/hda2
        label = n
        table = /dev/hda
        change
          partition=/dev/hda1
             set=win95_lba_hidden
             deactivate
          partition=/dev/hda2
            set=ntfs_normal
            activate

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                                HTH & regards,
                                Wojciech Zabolotny
                                wzab@ise.pw.edu.pl

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