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Multiple OS Installation

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gbrux

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I have a BP6 with Win98, Gentus Linux and BeOS Personal installed; I boot Linux and BeOS with boot floppies. However, I want to reinstall all three plus add Win2000, and want to install a boot manager. I've been considering this for sometime, and you probably understand the complexity involved.
Relevent parts of my system: BP6, two 466 MHz Celerons @ 525 MHz, one 20 gig Diamondmax Plus 40 (UDMA66), one 4.3 gig Western Digital (UDMA33), TNT2.
What strategy should I follow in installing the four OSes? I know how to install all four OSes on a drive or drives on the IDE33 controller without much difficulty. I want to utilize the ATA66 drive to the max. I have the latest BIOS for BP6 and drivers for the ATA66 controller.
Any suggestions on (1) partitioning the respective drives; (2) installation sequencies (Win98, Win2K, Linux, BeOS); and (3) the most efficient SWAP partitions, boot partitions, OS partitions, and data partitions.
Rereading this post, I may be asking too much.
 
Read the partitioning link below. Fell free to ask questions. Some of the multi-booting setup info is now outdated by the BootPart program from WinImage (www.~.com, I'm lazy right now).

-SUO
 
For the boot manager, use this free and cool bootmanager called Xtended Operating System Loader or XOSL, at:

ww.xosl.org

Very, very good! Better than PowerQuest bootmagic. Try it!
 
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