Supported file systems are: FAT12, FAT16.
All abovementioned systems except PTS-DOS can be installed only on an active primary partition of the first hard disk with FAT system, i.e. on the disk that is referred as C: by DOS (in PTS BootWizard this logical disk might be marked with another letter). PTS-DOS can be installed on any FAT partition of the first hard disk.
Main part can be installed on any FAT partition, but several system files must be stored in an active primary FAT partition of the first hard disk, i.e. on the logical disk that is referred by Windows 95/98 as C: .
Two or more Windows 95/98/NT 4.0 and above might conflict if their main parts are located in the same partition, i.e. you have specified the same disk to install Windows on. Thus we strongly recommend that you specify different logical disks when installing different Windows versions.
If there is more than one primary FAT partition and an extended partition with a different from FAT system, primary partitions except the first one might be unavailable from Windows 95/98.
PTS BootWizard will see all Windows as installed on the same partition, since PTS BootWizard detects Windows by those very system files that are always stored on the C: disk, though PTS might deem this disk to be different from C: because PTS BootWizard disk numeration differes from the Windows one.
Installation is possible in the following ways:
1) Windows NT is fully installed on FAT or NTFS primary partition of the first hard disk. This partition has to be active while Windows NT are installed. Initially the first primary partition is active. You can make a partition active using FDisk (from PTS-DOS package), Partition Manager etc.
2) Windows NT is installed on any NTFS partition, and OS Loader that
boots it is installed on the active FAT or NTFS partition of the first
logical disk. After installing Windows NT you can make OS Loader partition
inactive.
In this case PTS BootWizard will see Windows NT as installed on the
partition where OS Loader NT, and not Windows NT themselves are located.
If you use configuration 2) and Windows NT are installed on a primary
partiiton of the first hard disk and NT OS Loader is located in a FAT partition
than you can move OS Loader to the partition where Windows NT are
located (i.e. get the configuration number 1) ).
To do that you have to move all the files that are listed in the PTS
BootWizard system files list for these Windows NT to the Windows NT partition,
then add a new section to PTS BootWizard and choose this partition as the one
to which this section refers.
You will be able to move this files only from Windows NT. For safety reasons it
is better not to move but to copy this files, thus leaving it still posiible
to boot Windows NT as before.
If you want NT OS Loader to bypass it's menu and load Windows NT at
once than you have to comment the Timeout=...
line in BOOT.INI file from the root directory of the disk where OS Loader
NT is located, i.e. add a semi-colon in the beginning of this line. It can
be done from BootWizard text editor.
Two or mowe Windows 95/98/NT 4.0 or higher might conflict if their main parts
are all located in one partition, i.e. the same logical disk was specified
when they were installed. We strongly recommend that you specify different
logical disks when installing different Windows versions.
Can be installed on any partition..
When using Linux together with PTS BootWizard we recommend you to use the LILO booter. When installing Linux you have to specify that LILO is to be installed on partition's bootsector and not to use MBR, since MBR is used by PTS BootWizard. If you have troubles when booting Linux with LILO, copy Linux kernel and LOADLI.EXE to a FAT partition and create an extra DOS configuration that will start LOADLI.EXE
1) Each hard disk can hold no more than four primary partitions. If an extended partition is used than the maximum number of primary partitions is reduced to three.
2) Any configuration should include at least one FAT12, 16 or 32 partition, be it a primary partition or an extended one, for installing BootWizard on it.
3) If space allows, an extended FAT16 partition can be added to any configuration to install PTS-DOS on it.
4) Maximum FAT16 partitionm size for most operating systems is less then 2Gb. PTS-DOS and Windows NT can handle 2 Gb partitions.
5) In any of belowmentioned configurations aside from the listed partitions you can have any amount of extended partitions with any file system.
6) In any of below-mentioned configurations other distributions of the operating systems between the partitions then those listed are possible.
1. primary FAT16(32) Windows 95/98, DOS(if FAT16) 2. extended FAT16(32) PTS-DOS(if FAT16)One primary and any number of extended FAT16 or FAT32 partitions are used. Primary partition hosts Windows 95/98 and maybe any DOS if it is a FAT16 partition. You can install PTS-DOS on an extended FAT16 partition.
1. primary FAT16(32) Windows 95/98 Rus, syst files Windows 95/98 Eng 2. extended FAT16(32) Windows 95/98 EngBoth systems will be seen as installed on drive C: (see the Windows 95/98 paragraph).
1) 1. primary NTFS Windows NT 2. extended FAT16 PTS-DOS 2) 1. primary FAT16 DOS, NT OS Loader 2. extended NTFS Windows NT 3) 1. primary FAT16 DOS, Windows NT 2. extended any 4) 1. Act primary FAT16 DOS 2. primary NTFS Windows NTFirst primary partition must be active so that DOS will be able to boot (see the Windows NT paragraph) .
1) 1. primary FAT16 DOS, Windows 95/98, NT OS Loader 2. extended NTFS Windows NT 2) 1. primary FAT16 Windows 95/98, NT OS Loader 2. extended NTFS Windows NT 3. extended FAT16 PTS-DOS 3) 1. Act primary FAT16(32) Windows 95/98 2. primary NTFS Windows NT 3. extended FAT16 PTS-DOSFirst primary partition must be active so that Winndows 95/98 will be able to boot (see the Windows NT paragraph) .
1) 1. primary FAT16 DOS, Windows NT Rus, NT OS Loader Rus,Eng 2. extended NTFS Windows NT Eng 3. extended FAT16 PTS-DOS 2) 1. primary NTFS Windows NT Rus 2. primary NTFS Windows NT Eng 3. extended FAT16 PTS-DOS
1) 1. primary FAT16 DOS, Windows NT 3.51, NT OS Loader 4.0 2. extended NTFS Windows NT 4.0 3. extended FAT16 PTS-DOS 2) 1. primary NTFS Windows NT Rus 2. primary NTFS Windows NT Eng 3. extended FAT16 PTS-DOS(See Windows NT paragraph)
1) 1. primary FAT16(32) DOS(if FAT16), Windows 95/98 2. extended EXT2FS Linux 3. extended FAT16 PTS-DOS 2) 1. Act primary FAT16(32) DOS(if FAT16), Windows 95/98 2. primary EXT2FS Linux 3. extended FAT16 PTS-DOS
1) 1. primary FAT16 DOS, Windows NT 2. extended EXT2FS Linux 3. extended FAT16 PTS-DOS 2) 1. primary FAT16 DOS, NT OS Loader 2. extended EXT2FS Linux 3. extended NTFS Windows NT 3) 1. Act primary FAT16 DOS 2. primary EXT2FS Linux 3. primary NTFS Windows NT 4) 1. primary NTFS Windows NT 2. primary EXT2FS Linux 3. extended FAT16 PTS-DOSOne FAT partition is necessary for PTS BootWizard.
1) 1. primary FAT16 DOS, Windows 95/98, NT OS Loader 2. extended EXT2FS Linux 3. extended NTFS Windows NT 4. extended FAT16 PTS-DOS 2) 1. Act primary FAT16(32) DOS(if FAT16), Windows 95/98 2. primary EXT2FS Linux 3. primary NTFS Windows NT (See Windows NT paragraph) 3) 1. Act primary FAT16(32) DOS(if FAT16), Windows 95/98 2. primary EXT2FS Linux 3. primary NTFS Windows NT 4. extended FAT16 PTS-DOS(See Windows NT paragraph)