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Old August 19th, 2004, 04:43 AM
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Default OT: Anyone know a cheap place to buy Windows 98?

Quite a bit off topic, but I trust this board's technical expertise.

it's one of these: Hitachi 120 GB IDE drives.

I want to set this up as a multi boot system with Windows 95, Windows XP, and linux.

The format will be something like this:

/dev/hda1: FAT12/16 for DOS
/dev/hda2: NTFS for Windows XP
/dev/hda3: ext3/ReiserFS for Linux "/"
/dev/hda4: (EXTENDED PARTITION)
/dev/hda5: ext3 for Linux "/home/"
/dev/hda6: NTFS/FAT32 for Windows XP "My Documents"

Maybe with another fat16 at the end of that. The first fat16 will be just over 2 GB, the NTFS 4 GB, the linux ext3 4GB(aprox, I haven't nailed down a distro yet), the extended partitions will house all my data and will take up most of the HD, the ntfs for XP will be around 40-60 GB, the ext3 around 30-40.

Now I was planning on using Knoppix and it's qparted or cfdisk programs to sort the HD into partitions first, then insall dos/win3.11/win95 upgrade, then XP then whatever linux I decide on in their respective places. But I've heard that it might be better to part one section, install an OS, part another, install, ect. Any advice regarding that? Also, I read that using a linux program to make windows parts. is a not so good idea. Can anyone clear this up for me beyond a shadow of a doubt? I really wuld like it if it were as simple as letting cfdisk or qparted do it all at once.

One more thing I need cleared up, when I'm section off the drive, will cfdisk format it to fat16/ntfs/ext3 right after I partition it(I'm pretty sure it does, just want to be sure), or will I have to do something else to set that up?

Ok, ONE more thing, ok I install the Dos/win OS first, then XP, will I have to **** with anything special to make it boot right or will the install proscess take care of that for me?
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