Kevin,

If you want to save yourself a lot grief, headaches and confusion you
should consider buying System Commander Deluxe 4.0. It will set up and
manage as many OSs and partitions that you can throw at it, it's easy to
use and it performs flawlessly.

For Linux go buy yourself two books

Buy the Manual for the version you wish to install......this is a must and
you will be in a constant state of confusion without one particularly if
you have no UNIX experience. Trust me on this one.

Buy Mat Welsh's book...Running Linux which is the definitive book on the
Linux OS.

I strongly recommend that you install a version of Red Hat Linux....the
newest one is 5.0 and you can buy a CD with the manual for 15 dollars US
from www.cheapbytes.com....Mr. Welsh's book is around 25 dollars US>

Mark
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>Hi
>
>I will soon be purchasing a new 4 or larger Gig Hard Drive and I want to
>leave Win95 on my older 1Gig and place Win98, WinNT, OSWarp 2 and Linux on
>the new HD to gain experience with other operating systems beside Win95/98.
>I plan to partition the drive with a 5 partitions 1 partiotion for each
>drive and then and extra 100 - 200mb partition for swap files and a spare
>"Holding Area".
>
>I would like to know the best way to go about installing them and if I would
>be able to switch between them without restarting my PC. If I can't should I
>buy a program to allow me to do this as it would be more ideal than
>restarting or should I buy a program that lets me choose the OS I want to
>use on Start-up.
>
>Although I am closer to an advanced user than an intermediate user I have
>never doen anything like this before and any extra tips, advise or freeware
>programs to help me along the way would be really great.
>
>Thanks
>Kevin Hains