Hi Nidhog,
I have a suggestion here. I have actually done this with a friends pc.
I think you should just do 1 40GB partition for both the win98 and winxp
then use the remaining space for the linux partitions. You could
actually install windows xp on the same partition as your windows 98.
if from scratch, first use fdisk to create the 40GB FAT32 partition.
Then install windows 98 on it. after that install windows xp but this
time install it on a new directory instead. so instead of Windows as the
directory type something like WinXp. after that you could go on and
install your linux.
Hope that works for you.
nidhog wrote:
Hi guys,
I used to have linux and openbsd in my pc back home and a separate p3
with win98 on it. Till then I wasn't confronted with having unix and
win32 on the same disk.
Recently I moved in with my wife and we share one pc with an 80GB disk.
My problem is how do I install win98, XP and linux on it given the 4
primary partition limit of an IDE drive?
I've googled and found that I should use Partition Magic and do the
lazy way of partitioning via windows and install everything after
that.
I also wanted a data partition (FAT32) that can be used to share data
between all OSs.
Also, I'm not sure if I can use an extended partition for swap.
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)
Before I set out doing this, I just want to ask you experts if there's
a better way of doing it.
Thanks and best,
--
/nh
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