dual booting vista and windows 98

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i am happily, using a vista machine right now, and i was wondering, i know
that vista supports dual booting different operating systems, will this work
with windows 98? don't ask for my resoning behind this, i would just like to
know if its possible, and if there are any extra neccessary steps... thanks
in advance!
 
you should really install the older system FIRST.

might consider using VPC2007 free from ms and run w98 in a virtual environment.



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i am happily, using a vista machine right now, and i was wondering, i know
that vista supports dual booting different operating systems, will this work
with windows 98? don't ask for my resoning behind this, i would just like to
know if its possible, and if there are any extra neccessary steps... thanks
in advance!
 
teriaki511 said:
i am happily, using a vista machine right now, and i was wondering, i know
that vista supports dual booting different operating systems, will this work
with windows 98? don't ask for my resoning behind this, i would just like to
know if its possible, and if there are any extra neccessary steps... thanks
in advance!
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It would work - in theory. The main problem you'd have is getting Win98
drivers for your hardware. An easier and neater way to run other
operating systems is with virtualization. Install a program like Virtual
PC 2007 or VMWare (if VMWare is Vista-compatible yet). Then you can
create virtual machines running other operating systems like Win98.
There's a lot of information about doing that on both VPC and VMWare's
websites. You can also post questions about Virtual PC in its newsgroup,
microsoft.public.virtualpc.


Malke
 
«VMWare is Vista-compatible yet»

The latest version is compatible.
If one can afford it.
 
Check out Server version - it's free. Workstation is not free but
doesn't cost too much. Now, if you want ESX, the full blown VMware -
that's another story <G>.
 
It is possible and in addition to the driver problem mentioned before, you
may have too much memory. Others have done it and it requires a special
entry in the boot.ini file
 
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