Installing Win98 on a Win2K drive.

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I have a drive with 2 partitions; the first active primary part. is
NTFS and contains Windows 2000 Pro, the second active primary part. is
formatted with FAT32 and just contains the Windows 98SE system files.
The system bootup is controlled by XOSL, a boot manager. I'd like to
keep Win2K where it is and install Win98 to the second (empty)
partition, but it looks like its going to be tricky.

Windows 98 setup does a scan of the drive, and it came up with FAT
copies not the same, and some other nasty errors. I figured it might
be taking the FAT from the drive's first primary partition (the Win2K
NTFS part.), and giving a false error. I was afraid that if I had SD
correct it, I might lose the data on the entire drive. But the problem
is if I don't correct it, stupid Windows won't begin the 98SE setup.
My question is, how can I make sure Win98 setup won't touch the Win2K
partition that it shares on the drive, so I can be confident that
Scandisk errors are only relevant to the Win98 partition. And is there
a viable way to install Win98 without moving or removing Win2K?
 
Windows 98 setup is 'dumb' - it isn't aware of dual-booting and so will not install its boot partition anywhere except on the first partition of the first drive

There is a setup switch which stops scandisk running (I THINK it is /s) if you run setup from the command line, but I don't think you will get far after this

As far as I am aware, you must always install Win98 before any OS that is dual-boot aware.
 
Windows 98 setup is 'dumb' - it isn't aware of dual-booting and so will
not install its boot partition anywhere except on the first partition of
the first drive.

There is a setup switch which stops scandisk running (I THINK it is /s)
if you run setup from the command line, but I don't think you will get
far after this.

As far as I am aware, you must always install Win98 before any OS that is
dual-boot aware.
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I thought there was a workaround for this... ie. hiding Win2k from Win98
with a boot manager like XOSL?
 
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