Hi nidhog, I haven't tried installing 2 versions of Windows with Linux but I've done dualbooting WinXP and Linux. I think the main thing to do is install the Windows OSes first. Maybe, Win98 then WinXP. Just leave enough partitioned space for Linux. After the Windows OSes are installed, you can install most Linux distros without any problems. It's also a good idea to have a FAT32 for moving files from Linux to Windows and vice versa. So your plan looks OK.
Cheers, Allister On 1/19/06, nidhog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I used to have linux and openbsd in my pc back home and a separate p3 > with win98 on it. Till then I wasn't confronted with having unix and > win32 on the same disk. > > Recently I moved in with my wife and we share one pc with an 80GB disk. > > My problem is how do I install win98, XP and linux on it given the 4 > primary partition limit of an IDE drive? > > I've googled and found that I should use Partition Magic and do the > lazy way of partitioning via windows and install everything after > that. > > I also wanted a data partition (FAT32) that can be used to share data > between all OSs. > > Also, I'm not sure if I can use an extended partition for swap. > > I'm planning of doing this: > > /dev/hda1 - win98 > /dev/hda2 - Extended partition containing these: > ---> WinXP > ---> Data partition (FAT32) > /dev/hda3 - swap > /dev/hda4 - Extended partition containing: > ---> root / (ext3) > ---> boot (ext2) > > Before I set out doing this, I just want to ask you experts if there's > a better way of doing it. > > Thanks and best, > > -- > /nh > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- Allister Levi C. Sanchez Department of Physics, MSU-IIT, 9200 ILIGAN CITY, Philippines [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
