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Learned this in PC World magazine. If you dual boot NT and win 98, you can have both OS'es share the same swap file! Since I have 256 MB RAM, that saves me 640MB of disk space.
Set up the swap file under NT first. I did use a dedicated partition that is 650MB, the partition needs to be a little bigger than your target swap file size and should be FAT16 so both OS'es can see it.
Reboot and boot into Win 9x Command Prompt only menu. Find which drive letter Win 9x thinks the PAGEFILE.SYS is on. Now edit your SYSTEM.INI in the root of your Win 9x directory.
Find and edit the following settings to match your file size you specified under NT.
PagingDrive=E:
PagingFile=E:\PAGEFILE.SYS
MinPagingFileSize=655360
MaxPagingFileSize=655360
You will probably have to add a couple of the labels.
Now you have saved a bunch of space!!!
Set up the swap file under NT first. I did use a dedicated partition that is 650MB, the partition needs to be a little bigger than your target swap file size and should be FAT16 so both OS'es can see it.
Reboot and boot into Win 9x Command Prompt only menu. Find which drive letter Win 9x thinks the PAGEFILE.SYS is on. Now edit your SYSTEM.INI in the root of your Win 9x directory.
Find and edit the following settings to match your file size you specified under NT.
PagingDrive=E:
PagingFile=E:\PAGEFILE.SYS
MinPagingFileSize=655360
MaxPagingFileSize=655360
You will probably have to add a couple of the labels.
Now you have saved a bunch of space!!!
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