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<blockquote data-quote="Vipersan" data-source="post: 1015731" data-attributes="member: 325666">So ..the answer so far is NO ..one cannot install say win98 to a logical drive ...as it presumably cannot be bootable ..So made a 2gb primary partition at the drive start ...and hid every other partition on the drive except the logical partition to which I hoped to install win98 ..Then installed dos6.2 to the small primary ..and set about installing win 98 ..it did complete and squeezed itelf into the first primary partition 2gb ..and in the process overwrote dos 6.2 ..So no ..it can't be done that way ..in fact the only way this might be pulled off is to create 4 primary partitions( the MBR controlled limit)Hide each one in turn ...leaving one at a time revealed and set bootable ..then after completion of the install ..hide that one ..and move to the next till 4 x OS are installed ..In later windows the need for win-DOS was removed as the needed boot medium ..so later OS might well be installed on logical partitions ..but not Early windows OS ..Clear as mud eh ?I'll give the 4xOS a go ..but if my methodology doesn't work ..it's back to one OS one drive ..and the caddy system..I've spent long enough trying to cater for Microsofts rigid rules and inadequacies..lol</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vipersan, post: 1015731, member: 325666"] So ..the answer so far is NO ..one cannot install say win98 to a logical drive ...as it presumably cannot be bootable .. So made a 2gb primary partition at the drive start ...and hid every other partition on the drive except the logical partition to which I hoped to install win98 .. Then installed dos6.2 to the small primary ..and set about installing win 98 .. it did complete and squeezed itelf into the first primary partition 2gb .. and in the process overwrote dos 6.2 .. So no ..it can't be done that way .. in fact the only way this might be pulled off is to create 4 primary partitions( the MBR controlled limit) Hide each one in turn ...leaving one at a time revealed and set bootable .. then after completion of the install ..hide that one ..and move to the next till 4 x OS are installed .. In later windows the need for win-DOS was removed as the needed boot medium ..so later OS might well be installed on logical partitions ..but not Early windows OS .. Clear as mud eh ? I'll give the 4xOS a go ..but if my methodology doesn't work ..it's back to one OS one drive ..and the caddy system.. I've spent long enough trying to cater for Microsofts rigid rules and inadequacies.. lol [/QUOTE]

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