so.. heres what i've tried sofar the guide somehoew the Vibra's Dos Mode managers that setup the card buggeruploading into Windows 95. i walled off the unused 12GB of the drive formatted it FAT32, Installed WIN95 OSR2.5, and well... it works. what Doesnt work right now ... is Hiren's bootcd to load Any partition manager to switch what's hidden and whats not. (the system only has 20MB Ram, and all the partition managers the CD contains it tries to make a 30MB Ramdrive for it.)
so while it have it's drive in another system thats a Lil newer, i tried one bootmanager sofar to try booting between Win 3.1/Dos & 95, "Smart Boot manager" im kinda past a point w/ trying to keep partitions seperateby keeping the 95 one hiddenyet seeing if its possible to boot from it using a boot manager. SBM unhides it automaticly.
Now honestly im making this WAY more trouble than it's Worth right now. i know theres decent ISA /VESA video cards than whats in it right nowand using Windows 95 is going to be a Hastle w/ just a Cirrus Logic GD5428 (1MB VESA Card)
with some research looks like if i feel like shelling out some $$, i could expand the ram to possibly 64MB Ram (8x8MB 4x16 or 2x32 )but untill i get a better ISA videocard.. im questioning Why im going thru all this Heck just for it.
jesolo wrote:OS/2's Boot Manager takes care of creating separate partitions for you, which you then set up separately via the normal installa […]
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CaelThunderwing wrote:as for a sperate partition w/o messing w/ the main primary partition, i dont know Ho wto install Windows 95 there w/o Exposing the Main partition. i use dto get away w/ 95& 98 by using Bootmagic in the day. but this would require me installing 95 first then 3.1 i guess?
OS/2's Boot Manager takes care of creating separate partitions for you, which you then set up separately via the normal installation process of each operating system.
However, as stated earlier, since you are using DDO software, this might cause problems if used in conjunction with a Boot Manager.
Another alternative is to use the XT-IDE BIOS, flash it onto an EEPROM chip and boot up via a network card with a boot ROM socket. That way, you don't have to use DDO software.
I can post a guide for that if you can find a network card with a boot ROM socket.
sadly while i have Network cards that i could flash they're all PCI and all motherboards i have that newish can address even the lowest 20GB Drive. so i would need to source a ISA Network card w/ one.