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Duel Boot Windows 10/95/Linux

Burner1061
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I have Windows 10 installed on an old Gateway Core 2 Duo machine. I'd like to have the option at boot to be able to boot into 10, 95, Linux, or maybe others. Could someone help me through this? Thank you

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https://averagelinuxuser.com/dualboot-linux-windows/

 

repeat same steps for adding win95. I've never tried dual booting to such an old OS on 32bit so best of luck. 

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19 minutes ago, Burner1061 said:
I have Windows 10 installed on an old Gateway Core 2 Duo machine. I'd like to have the option at boot to be able to boot into 10, 95, Linux, or maybe others. Could someone help me through this? Thank you

Get additional hard drives or SSDs and install an OS on each. You would want to Install Linux last and make that drive the boot priority. I find Linux does a terrific job as a bootloader when multiple OSes are present. In fact, might be your only option as Windows 10 does not play well with other OSes, period (you could say it low key despises them). But in all honestly, I wouldn't bother installing Windows 95 on bare metal, use a Virtual Machine instead. You wouldn't be missing much in terms of performance in the tasks you'll be doing on that ancient OS. 

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Get 4 hdd, install 1 OS on each drive separately.

Hook them all up, boot the PC, press F9, quick select boot drive.

Viola... multi boot...

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