[Preston] Hello

[Caroline]

Hi,
Thanks for the help. You're right about being able to install 2000 and 98 
in the same partition.
We then decided it wasn't such a hot idea, and formated again, then 
installed in separate partitions. Since then, we thought we'd try XP (free 
copy as I'm a computing student!). This set up seems to be ok atm, so we'll 
see what happens when we stick Suse 8.1 on.

I'm putting Windows on because we're doing win programming at uni. (Sadly 
Linux doesn't get much of a look in on my course). As I understand it, Win 
98 is pretty useful if you want to be able to access com ports 
directly  (future project, maybe?).

My main reason for putting on 2000 was because I fancied a change from 98 
and it's only a 450MHz machine.
My Dad has just installed XP on his 500, though, and his seems ok at the 
moment.

Everything seems to be going ok generally. The only problem so far has been 
a near fire caused by a loose internal speaker wire.  :-/

Thanks for the advice everyone.  :-)


Caroline.



At 20:54 06/01/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>'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.
>
>
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