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Best method to dual, triple, maybe quad-boot?

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Xuttah

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I have 1 machine that I just want to play with. I want to load & play with Solaris, Linux, maybe BSD, and possibly W2K server. If I can have all on one box, that's perfect. If not, I'll choose one or two maybe and reload when I have to.

I'm not quite sure how to set up the disk though. I'm a network guy, not a server guy, so yes I'm a newbie to this, which is why I'm trying to learn. If anyone has suggestions/horror stories/things to do/things to avoid, I'm sure I'll be ahead starting out. One specific question is the partitioning/format to use.

FYI...This is a Pentium Pro system. I'm not exactly setting speed records. Don't know if that'll affect answers or not.

TIA
 
I just know the basics, but hope this helps:

Get a partition utility (Partition Magic works well) and devide your drive into separate partitions for each OS. Then installed each OS in a partion (make sure that the partition is properly formatted for the OS). Then run Bootmagic (comes with Partition Magic) under windows, and configure a bootup menu (it does it automatically, but may not recognize Solaris/BSD)

I run w98, w2k, and Linux using the above method, and works fine.
 
I have two machines triple booting W98,W2K, and SuSE Linux 7.1. Both of the computers were originally set up as dual boots using W98 & W2K, each on its own partition(s). All that was needed to triple boot was to resize, using Partition Magic, the W2K partition(s) leaving the space where Linux was to be loaded unpartitioned. When I installed Linux it found the unpartitioned space and created and formatted that space (about 4-5 GB in each case). I let LILO write to the MBR when that option presented itself and that was that. On boot I get the SuSE Linux LILO startup screen and can choose either Linux or Windows. If I choose Windows I get the further choice, via the W2K dual boot boot screen, of either W98 or W2K. One computer is a 400MHz w/128MB with 10GB and 30GB HDD's, the other is a 733 w/256MB and a 30GB HDD. Vanilla ATI video and Creative sound cards, no NIC's. Linux recognized my video and sound cards, mouse, keyboard and printers (HP) with no trouble. Both have Winmodems in them so I have not yet connected to my dial-up ISP with Linux. I had everything Ghosted before the Linux install so I wasn't really too concerned about running into problems. That and the helpful pointers I got from the kind folks at pcnineoneone.com was all I needed.
Harry
 
So if I'm going to run Solaris & possibly a Linux distro and/or a BSD, should I leave the entire drive unpartitioned? Will each OS carve out it's own partition (given that I specify a partition size)?
 
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