On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 09:13 +0800, nidhog 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)
This schema you provided isn't really possible - afaik Windows insists to be installed on a primary partition. You can try checking out LVM instead of placing swap on a partition of its own. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone <[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
