That's what I was thinking. From what I understand, the only conflict with installing another operating system should be the bootloader. So, if it does turn out that it tries to overwrite GRUB, I could always reinstall GRUB from my debian disk. If it works, GRUB should detect Win98 and list it along with XP and Debian. However I may have to edit GRUB's config file, but that should be relatively easy. I've also heard that I could use something like Virtual PC, which lets multiple OS's run simultaneously, but I imagine that would use up system resources and I'd prefer to have the OS installed the normal way. I'll give it a shot installing 98, and if I have to I can reinstall grub. Thanks for the help!
I've got 2 hard drives on my computer, a 320 gig as my master and a 120 as my slave (They're both EIDE). The master has got both Windows XP Pro SP2 and Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 installed on NTFS and Linux Ext3 partitions, respectively. I would like to install Windows 98 SE on a separate partition (probably FAT so DOS is compatible), on the same hard drive. Now, ordinarily I would have to install the old version of Windows first, then the newer version to avoid issues with the Windows bootloader. However, I am using GRUB (a bootloader that came with Debian) to boot to either Linux or Windows. My question is, will I be able to install Windows 98 on a new partition without un- and re-installing XP, since I'm not using the Windows bootloader? And if so (or if not) what steps do I need to take? Thanks in advance for your help.
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