RE: (clug-talk) XP, Win2k Advanced Server and Linux

[Ian Bruseker]

The following is based on similar experience,  but not exactly the same versions (and relies on "common sense", which no one has ever accused Microsoft of having).    I would suggest installing Windows 2000 first, then XP.  Since XP is the newer version of the two, it should recognize its older brother and play nice with him.  I have successfully install Windows NT and Windows 2000 on the same machine, and I did NT first and then 2000 after, working on the same assumption.  The one problem you might have (I did with the NT/2000 combination) is the two Windows might not agree on what letters to assign to each partition.  I installed NT on the "C:" drive, and 2000 on the "D:" drive, but then there was also a third partition, the "E:" drive as NT called it, which got swapped with the "C:" drive (the NT partition) when booted into 2000.  (Has anyone ever given Bill a good, solid spanking for coming up with the "drive letter" concept?  And why can't his own staff figure out how to handle it properly?)   Ian   -----Original Message----- From: Johnny Stork [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 4:32 PM To: CLUG Subject: (clug-talk) XP, Win2k Advanced Server and Linux A friend just asked me about tri-booting Windows XP, Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Redhat. I am familiar with MS OS's stealing the MBR and that Linux needs to be installed last. But, I am not sure what happens when he would install XP, and then Win2K, or the other way around, before installing Redhat? I imagine it wouldnt matter since Redhat would see both Windows partitions as bootable "Dos" partitions and all should be fine right? But if he first installs the 2 Windows OS's I want to make sure he will be able to boot the 2 of them. I am "pretty" sure the Win2k boot loaded on either one of them will populate boot.ini appropriately? I have run 3-4 OS's on the same machine before but this would have been Windows, OS/2, BeOS and Linux and I used Boot Magic as the Boot Loader which saw all partitions. Thanks ________________________________ Open Enterprise Solutions Open Solutions for an Open World Johnny Stork, BA Calgary, AB Canada http://www.openenterprise.ca http://www.open-solutions.ca