>Do I install NT or 95/98 ?? The problem is that I still need to do a fair bit of DOS
>coding
>with access to the bare metal necessary (ie: Serial I/O, special hardware cards etc) .
>So what to do?
> think maybe a dual boot setup is the solution but need some pointers to do it (if its
>possible). Any other comments welcome
Sounds like a case of dual boot to me...
The problem arises however that NT cannpt access FAT32 partitions and WIn95/98 cannot
access NTFS partitions.
The process is simple enough however...
Create partitions of
1. Win9x system
2. WInNT system
3. SharedData (FAT16)
4. ...Other partition probably NTFS...
1. Install minimal installation (uncheck everything) of NT to partition 3
2. use NT to format partition 1 to FAT16 and Partition 2 to NTFS (4k per cluster).
3. install Win95 to partition 1 (you don't get an option which partition)
4. Install NT (everything you want checked) to Partition 2
5. Format partition 3 as Fat16.
6. Install applications under various OS's
With some registry fiddling you can set up Delphi on a Fat16 partition and use it under
both OS's... The same goes for many applications.
The Boot.ini in the C:\ folder contains information about which OS is the default to
boot and
the bootmenu timeout... See www.SysInternal.Com for more boot.ini information and NT
tools.
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