[lug] Tri-Boot

[matt barkdull <mattb@iarc.uaf.edu>]

Ok, I'm now willing to share this experience.

I decided to make a tri-boot system on my Toshiba Laptop (Sat-Pro 4060DVD)

Windows 98
Windows 2k
RedHat Linux 7

Reasons for each OS:

Windows 2000 - my primary OS on this system.

Windows 98 - Since upgrading to Windows 2000, my DVD player has not 
worked and I found that it was going to cost me $50-90 to get it to 
work.  f**k that.  I can put up with a small partition of 98 to run 
the DVD player.

Linux - I'm trying to learn more.  I'm also trying some experiments 
at home that require me to have linux on something.


After many hours of installing and reinstalling this and that, here 
is the sequence that finally worked and it was fairly easy to 
configure:

1. Create a partition for Windows 98 and install it.
2. Create Partitions for Linux and install it. (create boot floppy!)
3. Create a partition for Windows 2000 and install it.
4. boot from floppy into Linux
    a. add Windows 98 to the lilo.com
    b. run lilo, which replaces the MBR that Windows 2000 loaded.


When you boot, it will now go into LILO screen.  If you select 
Windows it will run the ntldr with the choices of 98 or 2000.

Works slick.