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[Dennis <dlbt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jaakko Tamminen wrote:

> Hi
>
> This sound very promising!
>
> Does anyone knows if win-2000 can be installed to an existing empty 
> partition, that I would create with Linux?
>
> Jaska.

Install or follow this steps:

a. 
win98 (your existing OS) or install first, format the harddisk to at 
least three partition of however size you want;
b. 
win2k, no need to be the first partition, use NTFS only if your win98 
don't need to read info from win2k partition;
c. 
Linux, use whatever remaining space on harddisk, sub-divide to /boot, 
/home, / and swap (4 partitions) if possible.

Install lilo at MBR and you will see all the three OS, I have done 
win98/2k/RH7.1/SuSE7.3 all in one harddisk (60GB) and all work fine so fine.

Be careful when fdisk your harddisk and divide the space carefully, it 
can be very confusing.

Good luck.
Dennis/sg

> Viestissä Perjantai 21. Joulukuuta 2001 21:09, Jesse Marlin kirjoitti:
>
> > Jaakko Tamminen writes:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Has anyone done this before:
> > >
> > > Laptop with pre-installed win-98.
> > >
> > > We want to add SuSE 7.3 and win-2000, and be able to boot them (LILO?)
> > > all from HD.
> >
> > This depends on which OS.  Win98 wants to be on the first partition, so
> > installing it first is okay, and then linux.  I recently installed
> > WinXP and linux, and I actually installed linux first.  WinXP now allows
> > you to choose which partition to install to.  I thinks Win2000 also allows
> > this, but don't quote me.
> >
> > > Is this possible, and if it is, what is the installation sequence?
> > >
> > > Jaska.