triple boot WinME/Win2k/Free BSD

[Maverick]

Hey there,

I'm going to install WinME, Win2k and FreeBSD on a machine with a 61.4 gb hard drive.

Whats the best way of doing this to avoid the 1024th cylinder problem?
This is how I've planned all my partitioning:

Here are all the partions:
2 gb for WINME
5 gb for WIN2K
10 gb for Apps
35 gb for Games
5 gb for FreeBSD
3+ gb (whatever's left over) for swap space

What order should install the operating systems in? I'm assuming ME, 2k, then freebsd. But I wont' be installing Free BSD for two months, I just want to be prepped and primed for my installation in January. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

[SUOrangeman]

Read the sig and put BSD in whereever I say Linux. Well, in most cases.

-SUO

 

[IamDavid]

SUOrangeman's guide works perfectly. I used mine to set up my system.

 

[jtshaw]

Something like this will work well:

Clear your harddrive of everything, including partitons.
Start the linux installer and make a partition called /boot at the begining of the HD. This should be an ext2 partition.

Boot off the WinME CD and install WinME (don't delete the ext2 partition!).

Boot off the Win2k CD and install that (again, don't delete the ext2 partition). This should give you a dual boot Win2k/WinME machine with a random ext2 partition at the begining.

Now you need to install linux, using that ext2 partition as the /boot partition and putting the rest of the linux partitions wherever there is space for them.

You can set up the bootloader to run BSD and the Windows partition. I would only set it up to run the Win2k partition as Win2k will give you an ME boot option when it runs NT Loader.