G'day all,

I have a task asked by client to partition a 8.4G harddisk for win98, NT
and Linux multi-boot system. I have already partitioned and formatted
one FAT32 (3G) and one NTFS (2.5G). but the Linux the client provided to
me (Red hat 4) has a problem. He only gave me 6 CDs without any boot
disk, I cannot boot from the Linux CDs either.

My questions are:
1) how can I make Linux partition while I don't have any Linux boot
disks?
2) the client also asked to do a SINGLE Linux partition for the rest of
HDD, but all I heard from this list and other Linux people is Linux
needs a swap partition for installation and running. So I think it is
impossible to do what client asked for, however he said he saw someone
else did this (single partiton) before. So, is it possible to do so?
3) As a part of the partition processing, I had to install win2000 (beta
3 built 2081) in order to do the NT partition. My next step is to
install win98 on the FAT32 partiton, is there any problem with win2000
and win98 dual-boot? is there any problem with Linux boot if I can
manage the Linux partition? I ask this question because I have to test
everything before hand over the computer.
4) I don't have partition magic, and I want to format the NT partition
so when I give the machine to client, he will get a clean NTFS partition
(I can't give win2000 to him), how can i do that?

TIA

J Qian

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