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| 77269 | 2002-09-07 02:01:00 | Hello Can someone please help me with a couple of questions 1) Is it possible to have a triple boot with Win 98, Win XP and Linux? I know it sounds a little crazy but I have reasons for needing to do this. 2) I am considering with Win XP to do a few partitions. Basically I want a partition with only the OS, a seperate partition for games, a seperate for apps and then one more for basic files e.g. documents, Mp3s etc...Is this wise or is it totally counterproductive to do this? Will there be problems from this - or does it make sense? Thanks in advance for any input. |
doog (402) | ||
| 77270 | 2002-09-07 02:18:00 | Yes it is possible to treble boot. Weigh the options of installing the operating systems on either: separate logical drives, the contents of which can be accessed at most times, or separate primary partitions, the contents of which can only accessed when using a specific operating system. Drive partitioning is - within reason - a personal decision usually based on experience subject to particular requirements at any given time. What you ask is feaseable based on your perceived requirements - just be careful regarding partition/logical drive format compatability. |
Merlin (503) | ||
| 77271 | 2002-09-07 02:26:00 | I have linux,win98se,98lite, and an empty partition waiting for DOS or whatever happens to pake my fancy. I did it all with partition magic, and I use XOSL as a boot manager (www.xosl.org). What I have is one partition for each windows installation, one partition for stuff i download and acquire (mostly zip files and the like) and one partition for my data (mp3s, documents etc). I install programs straight onto each windows partition (C:), all games are to go on 98lite, and most other stuff on the straight win98se. Linux is on a separate HD. each OS is on a primary partition, hidden from each other, and the downloads and data partitions are visible to all the os's as logical partitions. I did notice though that partition magic wrecks my linux partitions.... a tip in advance, if you use partition magic, let linux set it's own partitions during the install and DON'T let partition magic "fix" them. |
loser (538) | ||
| 77272 | 2002-09-07 04:34:00 | Microsoft dual boot info support.microsoft.com MS say you need each OS on its own partition and Win98 needs the boot volume to be either fat32 or fat16 You can use fdisk to partition or xp clean install also allows you to partition, but you're supposed to install win98 before XP. XP creates one primary partition and the rest of the partitions it creates are volumes within the extended partition Linux can install itself into whatever free partitions or free disk space is left and can also install a boot manager LILO that gives you the choice on startup of which OS to boot - so install LINUX last You only need an expensive third party tool like partition magic if you want to repartition and keep existing data on the drive. If you don't mind losing all data you can use fdisk or xp to partition. Graeme |
Graeme (1537) | ||
| 77273 | 2002-09-07 04:48:00 | doog, I gave you some links in your thread "Linux 7.3 resources", a month ago. There are HOWTOs which cover your question. | Graham L (2) | ||
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