I haven't kept up with all the replies, but doing multiple OS's via "carving
up the hard drive" in this fashion is SO 20th century.

The 21st century solution:  http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/virtualpc/
Forget about partitioning for the different OS's.  And no one should have to
stop using their primary OS in order to boot and run another OS on the same
hardware.

Carl

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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of William H. Sweeney
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 4:08 AM
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Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Installing Multiple Operating Systems

Thanks for the replies. Right now my concern is not with the systems that I
have, but the exercise in installing them. I purchased the OS/2 Warp back in
1994, and it has sat this long. It's probably been two years since I got the
Linux 7.2, which did install okay yesterday when I did it (I did the install
with no other operating systems on the PC and let it have the whole drive).

I'm still having difficulty carving up the hard drive. The Gateway computer
I have comes with a set of Windows ME 'Restoration CDs', to rebuild the
system. Using FDISK, I select Yes for large disk support, and then setup a
2gig C: drive in the active partition. I then carve up the extended
partition into logical drives (I even ran Format against all the logical
drives). When I run through the Windows ME Restoration CDs it decides to use
the whole 57gig drive as the C: drive. The Linux install then can't find any
free space.

If I don't select large disk support, and create a 2gig drive in the active
partition, then the restoration only uses 2gig of the drive (I need to go
back and do this again and verify this as true).

At this point I'm still trying to figure out the best way to carve up the
drive. Should I specify 'N' to large disk support? I've been searching and
reading everything I can, and I'm still not hitting on the best approach.

Thanks again to all.

Bill Sweeney

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