Re: [lug] Tri-Boot

[Dayne Broderson <fsdbb@aurora.uaf.edu>]

(all spelling and grammar errors due to short things eating my feet)

  That is one method of getting w2k,98, and linux going.. doesn't need to
be  as hard as you made it though.  Microsoft likes to think alot of
themselves which makes the process harder than it should be.
  All DOS, 95, and 98 installs blow away anything in the MBR  and put
themselves in place.  When NT came out Microsoft saw that people  wanted
to dual boot 9x and NTs, so they allowed NT to have a boot manager,  and
allowed NT to sit on the non-active bootable partition (because that  is
where 9x/dos would have to live).  But NT's boot loader is only aware  of
microsoft OSs.. so anything else gets blown away (i've heard it is
possible to use the boot loader for non-microsoft OSs but while reading
thorugh the 'summary' I grew old and died).
  Anyway, keeping the egocentricity of microsoft in mind, installing your
box for dual/triple/quad booting is pretty easy.  If your starting with a
clean machine:
	install 98,
	install w2k,
	install linux
   Linux with the all-(most)-powerful lilo will allow you to load 1) linux
and 2) windows (which would be the NT loader w/ w2k and 98 in it).

Dont know why I felt the need to share this, but hopefully it will be
helpful to those like me (loading linux, freebsd, w2k, 98, and another
linux).



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On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, matt barkdull wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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