--- Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 09:13 +0800, nidhog wrote: > > 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.
And, I believe, you can only setup 1 extended partition. That gives you 3 primary partition plus 4 logical partitions. Put Win XP in a primary partition. As for win 98 (well, you have your reasons for sticking with it) why not put it in a VM in WinXP? If not, then it needs to be in a primary partition -- it can actually share the same partition with winxp if you keep your C: drive in FAT/FAT32, not NTFS. /boot must be in a primary partition, / and swap can be in the logical partitions. Install Win 98 first. Install Win XP next, as win XP can boot in drives other than C:. Then install your linux distro. --- mike t. _________________________________________________ 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
