Partition Size Sugestions

[Karl Blessing]

Ok I have ordered a ATA/66 60Gig Harddrive ( my Mobo supports ATA/33-ATA/66 but I bought a IDE Raid Controler that supports EIDE, UDMA, ATA 33/66/100 just in case I may ever need it ) so when I Get my 60G heres what I want to do, I Want to install these following OSes:

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Windows 98 Second Edition
Windows 2000 Professional
Mandrake 7.1 Linux
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I currently have 2 Drives, 1 10G and a 13G

HDD 1:
C: - 10G has Win98 installed on it (Fat32X)
HDD 2:
D: - 5.8G is a Fat32X partition to store extras
(E: DVDRom, F: CDrw)
G: - 4.89G is a NTFS partition with Windows 2000 installed


currently I have VisualStudio6, Outlook express, MSDN July 2009 sharing the same common folders on C: to share some space.

My question is , what is the best recomended way to install those 3 OSes (Or ghost the two current OS then install Linux)
once I get the 60G

also I do plan to use the 60G alone, unless there is a method in which I can use both the Controler Card, and my onboard IDE controlers. [sig]<p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.com>kb244@kb244.com</a><br><a href=

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[devnull22]

Hi kb244,
the way i did was :
- first install win98
- then install win pro
- then install linux.

at the linux prompt : type dos ... this will get you
into the NT loader , from there you have a choice of win98
or NT.

as for partitions -- it's up to you ..
you'll need fat32 for win98 and the nt loader.
NT pro can be in NTFS and linux can be ext2 ..

Cheers
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[Karl Blessing]

Actually, windows 2000 can be on Fat32, here how I did it, I Created a 10G Partition for Win98, then created a Fat32 Partition for the remaing spaces, and installed Win2k Pro on the rest of that, I havent installed Linux yet. [sig]<p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.com>kb244@kb244.com</a><br><a href=

http://kb244.com>

</a><br>Experienced in : C++(both VC++ and Borland),VB1(dos) thru VB6, Delphi 3 pro, HTML, Visual InterDev 6(ASP(WebProgramming/Vbscript)<br>

http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=629151

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