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triboot - win98, win2k and redhat 7.2

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by kyleknicks

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i currently have win98 and win2k installed on hidden partitions on my machine using bootmagic. i know that both of these os's partition need to start below the 8GB boundary (according to PowerQuest).

The question is.... does LINUX need start under this same 8GB boundary or does it not matter? and has anyone have 3 OS's installed on their machine.... any input would be greatly appriecated.

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by bhannigan

no. you can have it anywhere. i've had linux installed on a /dev/hdc and gotten it to start. the trick is to load the first 512 bytes from the disk into a file.

- get win2k & win98 loaded. i'll skip the details as this is well documented on the ms website.
- install linux to somewhere. remember whether you set the boot loader to read from the mbr or the partition. my example uses the mbr of the third disk
- just prior to rebooting, or through use of the recovery disk, mount a dos floppy and copy the first half k
dd if=/dev/hdc of=/mnt/floppy/hdc.bin bs=512 count=1
- boot into win2k
- copy hdc.bin to c:\
- edit the boot.ini file, add line
c:\hdc.bin="linux"

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