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...

Tip: Run a free scan for common Windows errors ad

re: win 98, win 2000 & Linux installation Thursday, August 16, 2001 at 2:29 pm 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... > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Yes... It can be done... Thursday, August 16, 2001 at 3:40 pm Posted by Bundyo (1 messages posted) I have Win98, Win2k and RedHat on my hard drive too. The previous message says it all, but you can see the NTFS from Linux too... You just need to edit your fstab and mtab files... Also you can make a triple Win2k Boot, not bothering to start your Linux from a boot disk. Uhm, that's all for now :) [Reply or follow-up to this message] ahhhhh Thursday, August 16, 2001 at 3:53 pm Posted by Curt R (1315 messages posted) I was told there was a way to view NTFS but couldn't figure out how to make it work. But if my source is correct, see is all you can do, there's no file manipulation......is that correct? I'm curious about that aspect .... Linux is off now (needed the space) but when I purchase another hard drive I want it back on. On Thursday, August 16, 2001 at 3:40 pm, Bundyo wrote: >I have Win98, Win2k and RedHat on my hard drive too. The previous message says it >all, but you can see the NTFS from Linux too... You just need to edit your fstab >and mtab files... Also you can make a triple Win2k Boot, not bothering to start your >Linux from a boot disk. Uhm, that's all for now :) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: win 98, win 2000 & Linux installation Thursday, August 16, 2001 at 9:21 pm Posted by Dave (20 messages posted) Thank you very much for all of you guys' information. I really appreciate it... On Thursday, August 16, 2001 at 2:29 pm, Curt R wrote: > 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... >> > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: win 98, win 2000 & Linux installation Friday, August 17, 2001 at 6:09 am Posted by Curt R (1315 messages posted) Always a pleasure! On Thursday, August 16, 2001 at 9:21 pm, david007 wrote: >Thank you very much for all of you guys' information. I really appreciate it... [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum