[Gllug] Triple booting Linux/Win98/Win2000

[Paul Brazier]

> here is a stupid quesiton.... can I create a triple boot a 
> Linux/W98/2000
> machine?? If so any suggestions to the order I install then 
> onto the machine
> (fresh machine 40G HD Athlon 1200 256Mb)

Install Linux last definitely so you can put Lilo on the master boot
record (MBR) without Windows overwriting it. Not sure if the windows
order matters but probably Win98 first, then Win2000.
then you can set up Lilo to boot to the appropriate partions.

I suppose you could either have Lilo booting all 3 or have it just
booting to Linux and Win2000, then Win2000's bootloader giving you the
choice of Win98 or Win2000.

Also you'd probably want Linux to have a small /boot partition at the
start of the disk before the
Windows ones (not sure if this is still necessary but there can be
problems with large disks IIRC)

The other thing is set up the partitions carefully because Linux can't
write safely to NTFS. So you really want NTFS just for the Win2000 basic
operating system and utils and then a large FAT partition of some sort
for data you want shared between the OS's.

Paul.


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