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10-06-2002, 06:46 AM
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triple boot system
Looking to figure out how to set up a triple boot system.
Win 98 Win Xp Mandrake 8 maybe 9 if i get it downloaded. would prefer to not use 3rd party software. The hard drive available, is a 80 GB The Linux would only need about 10 GB, setting it up to learn with. the rest devided between win 98/xp Think of this as a empty system, no data to be lost. Which should be installed first? Which partitions should be placed on the drive first? ect.
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10-06-2002, 11:38 AM
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Hi,
I would probably do it in this order: Win98,XP, and linux last. Then during the linux install you can configure your bootmanager (for example grub or lilo) to be able to have an entry for win98 and XP too, so you can boot them. I'm dualbooting Win2k and RH8 (I installed win2k then RH8), and just configured grub during the RH install so that I could boot win2k too. Some other might have different or better suggestions, but this how I would do it. HTH |
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10-06-2002, 01:06 PM
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I believe XP has a bootloader capable of booting linux seeing how it's based off of 2000 whch had this capability. It would probably give you the most control to go Win98, XP, then Linux
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10-06-2002, 09:21 PM
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What about setting the partitions?
set up a 30 GB for win 98, leave other unpartitioned, then when setting up win XP will it give me a choice to just use another 30 GB or so, leaving the remaining 20 GB(less) left over to install linux on? |
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10-06-2002, 09:55 PM
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Hi byte,
You are pretty much right on the money. Partition for win98 using fdisk, and if XP is similar to Windows 2000, it will let you partition the unpartitioned space that's leftover during the setup. What space is left after that will be partitioned during the linux setup. |
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10-07-2002, 10:22 PM
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Just a bit of advice... after installing windows 98... windows XP will ask if you want to set up an NTFS or a FAT32 partition for XP to live on... I would highly recommend FAT32 in your case because windows 98 will not be able to see the NTFS partition and linux will not be able to write to it, however both win98 and linux can read and write to a FAT32 partition.
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10-09-2002, 01:50 PM
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Good point. Aren't the latest kernels able to read/write to NTFS partitions now? Or is still being worked on? Thanks.
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10-09-2002, 02:24 PM
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you can't write to NTFS and reading is still experimental. I would reccomend installing xp on NTFS (for speed and stabilty in xp) and creating a FAT32 extra partition that could act as a "my briefcase" of sorts. I mean, you do kinda have the space :-).
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