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MrBurns   12-11-2003 at 12:23:02 AM

I now have Win98SE and XP installed in dual boot. Win98 is on C: and XP is on D:. I want to install Linux on E: and I want to have a boot menu, where I can choose between these 3 OSes. All partizions are FAT32 and I dont want to change tha, because I want to access all partitions w/ all OSes.

You should also know, that I am a Linux n00b. I mainly nned to learn Unix because I need it for the uni.

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silverpig   12-11-2003 at 04:53:09 AM
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Just boot from the mandrake cd and you'll come across the partitioning tool which will allow you to resize/create the partitions at will. I've never run linux on a fat32 partition before, but I'm pretty sure it can be done. Grub or lilo will allow you to choose between the operating systems and will be installed by default by mandrake.

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MrBurns   12-12-2003 at 07:58:57 PM
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I have done this now: I deleted the logical drive E: w/ fdisk (no data was lost on D: because of this) und I made 3 new logical drives instead of the old one: one w/ 2GB as swappartition, one w/ 3GB for Linux and the rest as a FAT32 partition w/ 27GB. The first two I made to the swap and native partitions and the setup program automatically converted them to ext2.

Now I can choose different Linux-bootoptions and Windows in the bootmenu. When I choose Windows, I get the WinNT bootmenu, were I can choose between WinXP and Win98.

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silverpig   12-14-2003 at 03:44:54 AM
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See? Easy :)

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