Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 28, 2002 07:59 PM
OK, I got your's ideea. I haven't tryied XP because I feel good with my 2k and Me who lives beside my LINUK, all three on the same system. It's insane that XP takes over all computer resources and let you no choice of install (partitioning your drive and choose where to install it like the user friendly 2k, or the components you want to install). In this case it's better to drop their product and I think that they are not as dumb to do that (it's horrible). Microsoft is doing lots of stupid things but not as stupid. Anyway, here is how to install a multiboot system, as simple as never before: 1. make the first partition of your drive about 50 Mb, primary, to mount there /boot (using partition magc or linux's fdisk) 2. make with a windoze 98/Me a second primary partition (3-5Gb are enough) and format it with fat32 3. use partition magic or other tool to create the third primary partition, ntfs, you make it active, and install there windows 2k 4. make active the windoze 98/Me active, boot that os's CD and install there windoze 98/Me 5. make the first partition active and boot the with the linux CD to install it and mount that partition /boot (this works to the most of the distros today, like Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE or Caldera) 6. then within the linux, once you've already created the first 3 primary partitions, you can create the fourht primary partition as extended where you can create all the other partitions, swap, root, /usr, /home and fat32 or NTFS for your windows data.
Brefing, you make the partitions 1. Linux, 2. win9x, 3. win2k, and install in reverse, 1. win2k, 2. win9x and finally 3. Linux.
It's well known that 2k and XP want to knock out other partitions, but once you've installed you remove from disk manager the acces to the other partitions and after that you may install quaietly the other OSes. This worked allways so far for me, but still haven't tested on XP (by the way, what good XP?)
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 28, 2002 07:59 PM1. make the first partition of your drive about 50 Mb, primary, to mount there /boot (using partition magc or linux's fdisk)
2. make with a windoze 98/Me a second primary partition (3-5Gb are enough) and format it with fat32
3. use partition magic or other tool to create the third primary partition, ntfs, you make it active, and install there windows 2k
4. make active the windoze 98/Me active, boot that os's CD and install there windoze 98/Me
5. make the first partition active and boot the with the linux CD to install it and mount that partition /boot (this works to the most of the distros today, like Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE or Caldera)
6. then within the linux, once you've already created the first 3 primary partitions, you can create the fourht primary partition as extended where you can create all the other partitions, swap, root, /usr, /home and fat32 or NTFS for your windows data.
Brefing, you make the partitions 1. Linux, 2. win9x, 3. win2k, and install in reverse, 1. win2k, 2. win9x and finally 3. Linux.
It's well known that 2k and XP want to knock out other partitions, but once you've installed you remove from disk manager the acces to the other partitions and after that you may install quaietly the other OSes. This worked allways so far for me, but still haven't tested on XP (by the way, what good XP?)
Good lock!
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