> Here's what I would like to do:
>
> 1. Have the source in a partition that could be used by SCO when I boot =
> up SCO on the I7000 and used by Linux when I boot up under Linux. If I =
> could also see that same partition while booting up under W98, that =
> would be great too (for printing purposes).
>
> 2. Have SCO system loaded - enough at least that I could compile =
> programs and upload those to an ftp site on the internet.
>
> 3. Have Linux fully loaded.
>
> 4. I will want to partition the drive such that I have about 1GB for =
> W98, 2GBfor my source, 1GB for SCO, 4GB for Linux.
>
> Anyone out there know if this can be done or how to do it?
OK, first, you will want to get Partition Magic to shrink the existing W98
partition to 1 GB without reinstalling W98 (if it came with a lot of
preinstalled software, you might have to uninstall some of it to get under
1 GB).
For your 2 GB source partition, if W98 is to read it, I would expect you
need to use a DOS FAT/VFAT filesystem, except that I've heard about a
driver that can allow W95 (no idea if it works with 98) to at least read
Linux EXT2 filesystems, which sounds like all you need it to do (no idea
how well it works, though).
I don't know how good SCO's VFAT support is, but in the newer Linux kernels
(RH 5.1 comes with 2.0.34) it's supposed to be excellent. I don't know if
SCO can read Linux's EXT2 filesystems, but there's some chance it may. I
don't know what SCO's native filesystem is called, nor if Linux reads it.
For Linux and SCO, make partitions for each using each OS's usual methods
and install normally. You'd need to figure out how to configure a boot
loader to be able to boot into all 3 OS's; I'd use LILO, but I'm biased
based on my experience with Linux and lack of experience with SCO.
But anyway, what you are suggesting should be possible.
And yes, you probably want to hire somebody who's an expert on both Linux
and SCO to set the whole thing up (i.e., not me, who probably knows enough
about the Linux side to set things up but knows little about the details
of SCO beyond general unix stuff).
/dev/joe
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