Re: Help: Triple boot Win XP, Win 98, and Linux (Updated)

From: Timo Voipio (oh_hami_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/30/03 

Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 22:06:00 +0300

Jim Bowering wrote:
> Buy Partition Magic and partition your HD like this:

WTF? Linux fdisk does all the things that are needed.

> 5GB primary - FAT32 for Win98
> 5GB primary - NTFS for WinXP
> 5GB primary - set aside for Linux

Doesn't actually need to be a primary.

> 25GB extended - with logical drives 10GB FAT32, 10GB NTFS and 5GB set aside
> for Linux.

The amounts sound reasonable.

Here's the way I used to install 2k, 98 and Debian as triple-boot:

1. Use fdisk off the Debian install cd, partition as follows:

/dev/hda1, 8 MB - /boot, type 83 (Linux)
/dev/hda2, 5 GB - /win98, type FAT32 LBA (I can't recall the type number for
that)
/dev/hda3, 5GB - /xp, type HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda4, the rest - FAT32 Extended (type 0e or 0f... IIRC)
/dev/hda5, 10GB - /shared, type FAT32
/dev/hda6, 10GB - /xp2, type HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda7, 512MB - swap, type 82 (Linux swap)
/dev/hda8, rest - /, type 83

2. Use 98's CD's tools to format C: (/dev/hda2). Then install Win98 there.
3. Install XP on D: (/dev/hda3). Make sure that it does not just
automagically fdisk and format the whole 40GB disk...
4. Install Linux. Make an ext2 filesystem on /dev/hda1 and use it as the
/boot filesystem. This ensures that Linux can get around brainless BIOSes.
Make sure that lilo is installed on /dev/hda1, NOT on the MBR of /dev/hda.
5. Add linux to XP's boot menu by dd'ing the first 512 bytes of /dev/hda1 to
a file (say, bootsect.lin), copy that file to /win98. Then add the following
line in boot.ini under [operating systems]:
C:\BOOTSECT.LIN="Linux"

6. Boot and pray.

The method mentioned above worked with 98, 2k and Debian Woody. There's a
possibility that M$ has changed their boot method again -- in that case
configuring triple-boot might be bit more challenging.

-Timo 

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