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I'd a similar sitution.: I had w95 on fisrt parttion (fat32) instead of
win98 and W2000 on second partition and someone gave me this link when I
needed to instal Linux on a 2nd HD:
http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader

it explains dual-boot with NT and Linux, but I follow the instructions to
make a tri-boot system (W95/W2000/Linux) and everything worked fine.
Let linux create the partitions for it (do not use NT disk admin)
Attention to items 3.3 and 3.4

I hope I helped

JT

Don't forget backup!

Quote:> Hi-  I have system with win98 (first partition on HD, FAT32) and w2k
(second
> partition on HD, FAT32) on it that I am going to add linux to.  The system
is
> currently using w2k's boot manager to dual boot the system.  My plan is to
use
> partition magic to make a third partition for RH linux 6.2, put lilo on
that
> partition to load RH, and manually modify the w2k boot manager file
(boot.ini)
> to tri-boot the system (win98, w2k, RH linux) at startup.  Does any one
know
> the text to add to boot.ini that would allow this to be done?  Thanks in
> advance, Larry

Quote:> Hi-  I have system with win98 (first partition on HD, FAT32) and w2k (second
> partition on HD, FAT32) on it that I am going to add linux to.  The system is
> currently using w2k's boot manager to dual boot the system.  My plan is to use
> partition magic to make a third partition for RH linux 6.2, put lilo on that
> partition to load RH, and manually modify the w2k boot manager file (boot.ini)
> to tri-boot the system (win98, w2k, RH linux) at startup.  Does any one know
> the text to add to boot.ini that would allow this to be done?  Thanks in
> advance, Larry

dd if=/dev/hda7 of=linux.sct

(You must specify the correct boot partition in place of /dev/hda7.) You
then copy the resulting linux.sct file to a partition that's accessible
from NT/2K, and reference it in BOOT.INI something like this:

C:\linux.sct="Linux"

IMHO, this is pretty kludgy, because it requires extra steps if you ever
recompile your kernel. A better solution, IMHO, is to use a third-party
boot loader, like the BootMagic that comes with PartitionMagic, to
select between your Windows and Linux OSs. NT's OS Loader then functions
as a secondary OS selector, booting only NT.

FWIW, I cover these matters in more detail in my book, _The Multi-Boot
Configuration Handbook_ (http://www.rodsbooks.com/multiboot/).

--

http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration

Quote:

> The usual way to do this is to use Linux's dd to extract an image of the
> Linux boot sector, thus:

> dd if=/dev/hda7 of=linux.sct

dd if=/dev/hda7 of=linux.sct bs=512 count=1

Actually, the bs=512 parameter just re-states the default, and so can
be omitted. The count=1 parameter is critical if you just want to get
the boot sector, though; omitting it results in an extraction of the
entire partition.

--

http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration