re: win 98, win 2000 & Linux installation
Thursday, August 16, 2001 at 2:29 pm
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Curt R
(1315 messages posted)
Going in order....
1) Yes, not so long ago I had a triple boot 98/2000/Mandrake
Linux setup....not problems, no conflicts.
2) Yes it will....here's how I did
it:
First I installed 98. Then from inside 98 I ran Partition Magic to create
a 3 GB partition for 2000 and left is as FAT32 (2000 will change it to NTFS on the
fly for you during the install if you tell it to during the setup) Then I used Partition
Magic to create a 5 GB drive for the Linux and I left it as FAT16. From inside windows
98 I installed the windows 2000 and changed that partition to NTFS on the fly (you'll
see the prompt...just read carefully and follow the instructions) After those two
were installed and stable i then used the utility that came with my Linux to create
a bootdisk for my windows setup and ran it and installed as per instructions.
3)
Yes from windows 2000, but, it won't see the Linux partition(s) Windows 98 won't
see either the windows 2000 (NTFS) partition or the linux partition. Linux won't
see the NTFS partition but will the windows 98, NOTE: running app's installed in
win98 from win2000 can be tricky and may require you to install it from both operating
systems. I don't know of any app's that are made for windows that will run on Linux
so forget that idea altogether.
4) As I stated before, you can convert your windows
2000 partition on the fly to NTFS. If you require security on your files and folders
then definately convert it to NTFS. Don't try to format the partition as NTFS with
Partition Magic......windows 2000 needs to see it as FAT16 or FAT32 to install and
it won't see that partition of you preformat it to NTFS.
5) Any hard drive will
work providing it's IDE (providing the one in your PC is IDE as vs. SCSI....most
likely it is IDE as I've rarely seen a computer shipped with SCSI unless specifically
ordered that way) More than likely the IDE cable your original hard drive is plugged
into has a second plug just waiting for your slave drive to be plugged into it.
On Thursday, August 16, 2001 at 10:50 am, david007 wrote:
>My hard drive is a 20G with Win 98se installed. I want to use partition magic so
>to install Red Hat Linux on this same hard drive, and then I will buy another hard
>drive and install windows 2000 on it.
>
>My questions are:
>
>1).Is this possible? Will there be conflicts?
>2).Will the machine let me decide which o.s to use when it reboots?
>3).Can I access old win 98 files/applications when I am working under Win 2000/Linux?
>4). Some experts before mention win 2000 features best to shown when installed with
>NTFat. How do i get it? Should i use partition magic to get this?
>5). My computer is from Dell, will all the hard drive purchased from the market
fit
>for Dell, or I have to purchase from Dell only?
>
>Thank you very much for your helps...
>
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