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Multiple Operating systems on one HDD

I have seen hard drives with multiple operating systems on and a choice screen as to what to boot up into .ie. win3.1, win95, nt or dos...how can you do this?
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A program like "System Commander Deluxe 4.0" will solve your problem, it enbles you torun multiple operating ystems om one hard drive.
mrorange has it.

Just make sure you install NT last, it lets you access the rest.

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I have done this more than once and I would not recommend it to anyone. I used Norton Commander to install windows 3.11 and 95 and it worked but not great there was alot of glitchs. I have never seen a smooth dual operating system. Good luck if you must.
It would be a good idea to divide the drive into partitions, one (or two, in the case of Linux) partition for each OS. If you have a big enough drive (6 Gb and up), you can easily install 3 - 4 different OS'es. A W95/8 boot partition of some 500 Mb's formatted with FAT16 will let you install all the rest.