[Preston] Hello

[Matthew T. Atkinson]

'ellow,

I have read on the net that you can install 98 and 2k in the same partition
(as 2k uses "WINNT" not "windows" for its directory) but most people
recommend using a separate partition.  The benefits of NTFS over, ugh, FAT32
may well be worth it for you.  The one thing that everyone agrees on is that
you must install 98 first.  When you add Linux it should be clever enough
(assuming it's SuSE/MDK/RH or a similar 'mainstream' distro) to make up a
boot menu for you.  I've never had any trouble in this department and have
reinstalled various Linuxes (is that the right plural???) over the top of
each other, etc.

The only thing to be cautious about really is that if you ever move the 2k
partition with smt like PartitionMagic you *must* edit the boot.ini file or
it will be looking on the wrong partition for its boot files and will
therefore be unable to boot (it would complain "NTLDR is missing" or
something similar).  I don't know why they designed it like that.  This
cropped up when my friend wanted to install OS/2 on his box and it took us a
long time to figure out, lol!

However, I urge you to think about just using 2k and Linux.  I do this (2k
is on an NTFS partition which Linux is more than capable of reading now).  I
used to use 98 but have had no need for it (not even for games) since I
moved to 2k.  I have got 2kSP2 and its been fine for me (as far as windows
can be, of course).  I used to play games on it but now I play Q3/UT/etc in
Linux.  The site http://www.ntcompatible.com/ may be of help to you in
ascertaining if 2k will do all you need it to.

Hope that helps, bye just now,


matthew

----- Original Message -----
Hi All..

I'm new, too. I'm a student at the uni here and have been dabbling with
Linux for the past year or so. I'm at the stage where I can possibly name
1/2 a dozen distros. Hmm.
I'm in the middle of a re-build and planning to make my desktop machine
tri-boot (?) with win 98, 2000 and Suse 8.1. It's an experience.

Caroline.