[vikram_d84]

hi,

well here is a strange setup that i wanna do on my machine. i would like to setup windows xp, redhat linux 9, xandros debian linux and freebsd 5.0 on my machine. i have a 40 gb harddisk. how should i partition my harddisk and how should i make it to boot into all of them.
help !

vicky

[shan]

well, you'll probably want to partition the biggest section for the os you'll use the most, you should be able to set up grub boot loader to boot into all os'es if you install fedora last....just make sure to install windows xp first becuase it formats the whole hard drive and gives no options to set a custom size, you probably my need to get partition magic as well to set each partition size that you need.

good luck

[shan]

when i said fedora above, i meant red hat in your case..

[T1junkie]

hmm that is an Interesting combo @_@;;

first I would partition the drive 4 ways (4x10GB)
im not sure how you should do that tho, ie: all primary partitions or having some extended partitions...

Windows has a nasty habit of taking over the MBR so I would install it first (So it doesn't overwrite anything)

as I have never used FreeBSD or Debian I do not know how their installations operate....

but you would need to install a boot manager such as Lilo or Grub

one of which (Cannot remember which) comes included with Red Hat Linux.

~T1Junkie

[Deathwalker]

The grub loader is included with red hat, for sure. I think that Lilo might be included too.