Windows multiboot (aaargh!)

[John covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>]

I am pretty sure windows in general always wants to be the first
partition on a given drive and even if I am wrong about that you
can't have more than one boot partition per drive -- also make sure
your machine will boot from the third drive.

Also, you should not do the install on a separate box, windows needs
to know the hardware it is going to encounter during the install.
You might consider vmware -- seems much safer to me for what you want.

on Thursday 09/11/2003 cr(cr@orcon.net.nz) wrote
 > This may seem an odd place to ask this, but I'll bet some of the folks on 
 > this list know more about the technicalities of booting Windoze than Windoze 
 > users do   ;)
 > 
 > I'd like to add a multi-boot DOS + Win95/98 hard drive to my Linuxbox.  
 > 
 > I currently have Deb 3.0 installed on /dev/hda, booting with GRUB,  and I 
 > have a 500MB DOS partition on /dev/hdc1 and /dev/hdd1   (with ext2 Linux 
 > partitions on the rest of hdc and hdd).   If I want to boot DOS  I just use a 
 > boot floppy.
 > 
 > I have a spare 3GB hard drive I'm thinking of installing on hdc, and I'd like 
 > to do something like this:
 > 
 > 500MB  DOS   FAT16
 > 500MB  DOS   FAT16  (optional)
 > 600MB Win95  modified FAT16?
 > 600MB Win98  FAT32?
 > 800MB Linux   ext2
 > 
 > I'd like to be able to boot into DOS, Win95 and Win98.
 > 
 > I'm just wondering how practical that is.    Can W95 and W98 coexist on the 
 > same disk in diferent partitions and still both be bootable?    If not, any 
 > suggestion on which is the better one to install?    And, would I need to 
 > lose one of the DOS partitions so as not to exceed the allowable number?
 > 
 > There are plenty of multiboot HOWTOs, but they all seem to be WinNT + 
 > something.    I can't find a W95 + W98.    Before I start trying to figure 
 > out the details, I'd just like to know if I'm chasing an impossibility.    
 > Incidentally, I'd probably sit the disk in my old 75MHz 'spare' computer to 
 > do the installs so I don't risk  munging my Debian system.    When it's all 
 > set up, I'll pop it into my No 1 Linuxbox and set about tuning GRUB.   
 > 
 > And, no, I'm not going to let those Windoze partitions anywhere near the 
 > modem.  ;)    No email, no browser.   Any internet stuff goes through Debian. 
 >   
 > cr
 > 
 > 
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         John Covici
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