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Special Ed
10-18-2001, 06:56 PM
Hello, I was wondering if it is possible to multi-boot my system with the four OS mentioned above. I am going to reformat both of my hard drives, and begin the installations, as soon as I know what the hell I am doing. This is what I can guess will work so far. Please tell me if my theory holds water:
1. Reformat both my hard drives (30 GB and 20 GB) - 30 gig: 2 gig and 28 gig, both FAT32 - 20 gig: 1 FAT32

2. Install Windows ME on 28 gig parition

3. Use disk to boot up Linux Red Hat 7.1
- manually partition my 2nd HD
- ext2: 10 gigs
- swap: 500 megs
- /: 4 gigs

4. Use fdisk command in Linux, after installation is complete
- write a FAT16 partition over top of 2 gig FAT32 paritition
- set up paritions and write partitions for FreeBSD (I am not sure what I need at this moment, since i have not looked into FreeBSD too much)

5. Gnash my teeth in frustration :-)

I don't know if it is possible to have this configuration, and i am not too sure how to instal
the other two OS from here. If anyone has any idea what I should do (even abandon the idea if neccessary), please by all means tell me. :confused:

SUOrangeman
10-19-2001, 11:34 AM
I'm not totally sure if you will be able to put MS-DOS 6.22 in that mix, as WinME will probably try to overwrite it.

Other than that, you should be OK.

I am currently multi-booting FreeBSD 4.4, QNX 6.1.0, WinME, Win2K, WinXP, and Mandrake 8.1 on a single hard drive. I'm using NT Loader with some help from WinImage's BootPart utility.

-SUO

Special Ed
10-19-2001, 03:39 PM
Thanks for the help. I think I might try that FreeDOS OS instead of MS-DOS anyways :-) . I don't know what my obsession with that damn OS is, but I guess it is because i learned how to use a computer on it.

Quick Q about your FreeBSD. Is is possible to write the partition from fdisk in linux for the correct filesystem type?