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Afton H Cayford (afton.h.cayford@ubc.ca)
Tue, 09 Mar 1999 08:16:15 -0800
I partitioned a 3.2 GB drive into 4 primary partitions using Openstep and formatted one for NT, one for dos, one for Openstep and one for Linux. I then installed openstep and NT and then installed Linux. I made a swap partition as a subpartition in the Linux partition. I had no trouble when I selected the MBR as the place to put LILO but I did have trouble when I tried to put LILO in the first sector of the root partition. It boots with LILO and I can then select whichever of the three operating systems I want to use. The dos partition is small and is there because all three OS see dos and I can easily move files between them through the dos partition. I had endkless trouble when I made a lot of Linux logical partitions. It is better to let Linux do it automatically in the Linux partition during installation. The most difficult part will be getting the things like ethernet drivers to all work on all the OS's. They must be on the same ports with the same IRQ's in each system. H!
owever it can work without much trouble. I also have a similarly multipartioned SCSI drive at 3.2 GB that they all share without problems. However I still cannot get Crystall Audio PCI sound to work on all of them at the same time as does the ethernet card. It is one or the other. Still a challenge. Good luck.
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