[Gllug] Triple booting woes

[Simon Stewart]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 02:24:28PM +0000, tet at accucard.com wrote:
> 
> >When you install the second Windows 98 partition it's configuration 
> >will be set C:, but when you later boot it's own partition will now 
> >be D: as DOS/Windows9x assigns drive letters sequentially. If there's 
> >a way around this I like to know, it's been a pain for many years.
> 
> The order in which Windows assigns drive letters is something of a
> black art, and even changes between versions. But there are at least
> *some* versions (although I couldn't tell you which, off the top of
> my head) that treat the boot drive as C: and then assign drive letters
> to the other drives from there.

Doesn't grub have a feature to "hide" partitions? Just hide the one
that you're not using atm, and make sure that you install all your
apps twice on a seperate partition (so that changes to the registry[1]
will be available in both installations)

Cheers,

Simon

[1] "You'll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We
    must be cautious." --- Obi-Wan Kenobi

-- 
"For non-deterministic read 'Inhabited by pixies.'"


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