I am pretty sure windows in general always wants to be the first
partition on a given drive and even if I am wrong about that you
can't have more than one boot partition per drive -- also make sure
your machine will boot from the third drive.
Also, you should not do the install on a separate box, windows needs
to know the hardware it is going to encounter during the install.
You might consider vmware -- seems much safer to me for what you want.
on Thursday 09/11/2003 cr([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
> This may seem an odd place to ask this, but I'll bet some of the folks on
> this list know more about the technicalities of booting Windoze than Windoze
> users do ;)
>
> I'd like to add a multi-boot DOS + Win95/98 hard drive to my Linuxbox.
>
> I currently have Deb 3.0 installed on /dev/hda, booting with GRUB, and I
> have a 500MB DOS partition on /dev/hdc1 and /dev/hdd1 (with ext2 Linux
> partitions on the rest of hdc and hdd). If I want to boot DOS I just use a
> boot floppy.
>
> I have a spare 3GB hard drive I'm thinking of installing on hdc, and I'd like
> to do something like this:
>
> 500MB DOS FAT16
> 500MB DOS FAT16 (optional)
> 600MB Win95 modified FAT16?
> 600MB Win98 FAT32?
> 800MB Linux ext2
>
> I'd like to be able to boot into DOS, Win95 and Win98.
>
> I'm just wondering how practical that is. Can W95 and W98 coexist on the
> same disk in diferent partitions and still both be bootable? If not, any
> suggestion on which is the better one to install? And, would I need to
> lose one of the DOS partitions so as not to exceed the allowable number?
>
> There are plenty of multiboot HOWTOs, but they all seem to be WinNT +
> something. I can't find a W95 + W98. Before I start trying to figure
> out the details, I'd just like to know if I'm chasing an impossibility.
> Incidentally, I'd probably sit the disk in my old 75MHz 'spare' computer to
> do the installs so I don't risk munging my Debian system. When it's all
> set up, I'll pop it into my No 1 Linuxbox and set about tuning GRUB.
>
> And, no, I'm not going to let those Windoze partitions anywhere near the
> modem. ;) No email, no browser. Any internet stuff goes through Debian.
>
> cr
>
>
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