Title: Tri-boot
HaTcH - July 18, 2005 07:06 PM (GMT)
Well it took a day of work (really just searching and downloading drivers for my stuff) but I successfully created a tri boot computer. Yea, 3 operating systems!
Well first off I had windows XP then I installed Linux, and now I've added windows 98!
Its neat to have the choice on the grub bootloader to goto windows or linux, and then under the windows boot loader to pick between windows98 and xp! =]
Well first off I had windows XP then I installed Linux, and now I've added windows 98!
Its neat to have the choice on the grub bootloader to goto windows or linux, and then under the windows boot loader to pick between windows98 and xp! =]
Zelos - July 18, 2005 09:33 PM (GMT)
Neat, never seen it done before, but I knew it was possible.
What do you use 98 for? Do you have some programs that don't run (well) under XP? I don't think I could ever go back to 98 know, at least, not on that POS we used to have. It was quite fun to destroy it...
I'm planning on installing Linux on my second hard drive sometime, what distribution do you recomend for someone who just wants to see what Linux is like without very much trouble (other then perhaps finding drivers...)?
What do you use 98 for? Do you have some programs that don't run (well) under XP? I don't think I could ever go back to 98 know, at least, not on that POS we used to have. It was quite fun to destroy it...
I'm planning on installing Linux on my second hard drive sometime, what distribution do you recomend for someone who just wants to see what Linux is like without very much trouble (other then perhaps finding drivers...)?
HaTcH - July 18, 2005 10:16 PM (GMT)
I prefer Gentoo but thats a biased position. http://www.gentoo.org
Becarefull, a Gentoo install (well probably any linux install) requires 3 of its own hard drive partitions. 1 partiton for GRUB the boot loader, ~20 megs, 1 drive for swap space (which is optional I think), ~512mb, and one more partition for the os itself. I think that each partition can be its own drive but why bother, also a partition table on any hard drive only allows for 4 partitons.
Here is a screenshot of my diskmgmt software on windows xp:
The grub partition format is ext2 I think, the second partition is swapspace and the 3rd is ext2 the 4th, my windows 98 partiton is FAT32, all formatted with the Linux fdisk application. Linux can read/write pretty much any drive format including mac format stuff. Same goes for removable media. However, NTFS partitions are only readable (no write).
Also, windows XP's boot loader sits on the root of disk 0 called NTLDR, and now, with Windows 98 there, it's own copy of the bootsector from disk C resides there. Normally the user cannot access the MBR, which is what the computer boots. When windows 98 is installed it re-writes the MBR, so then you have to boot into windows XP and restore it to the MBR for dual boot function. Then you use the linux live cd to boot into linux and copy grub into the MBR. Its a fun process.
As for my reason to have windows 98, well its so I can play Sim City 2000 Network edition. I have yet to play. :P Seems like it became more of a crusade XD. My next feat is a new IDE controller card. My old one was malfunctioning and causing excessive heat on my mobo.
Becarefull, a Gentoo install (well probably any linux install) requires 3 of its own hard drive partitions. 1 partiton for GRUB the boot loader, ~20 megs, 1 drive for swap space (which is optional I think), ~512mb, and one more partition for the os itself. I think that each partition can be its own drive but why bother, also a partition table on any hard drive only allows for 4 partitons.
Here is a screenshot of my diskmgmt software on windows xp:
The grub partition format is ext2 I think, the second partition is swapspace and the 3rd is ext2 the 4th, my windows 98 partiton is FAT32, all formatted with the Linux fdisk application. Linux can read/write pretty much any drive format including mac format stuff. Same goes for removable media. However, NTFS partitions are only readable (no write).
Also, windows XP's boot loader sits on the root of disk 0 called NTLDR, and now, with Windows 98 there, it's own copy of the bootsector from disk C resides there. Normally the user cannot access the MBR, which is what the computer boots. When windows 98 is installed it re-writes the MBR, so then you have to boot into windows XP and restore it to the MBR for dual boot function. Then you use the linux live cd to boot into linux and copy grub into the MBR. Its a fun process.
As for my reason to have windows 98, well its so I can play Sim City 2000 Network edition. I have yet to play. :P Seems like it became more of a crusade XD. My next feat is a new IDE controller card. My old one was malfunctioning and causing excessive heat on my mobo.
ZeRoRaVeN - July 19, 2005 08:44 PM (GMT)
Just for SimCity network edition!? I have SimCity 2000 Unlimited, don't play it much anymore. Get 4, its supposed to be good.
Tri boot's not new, just that few people try it. Just wait, when apple fully goes intel, then we're talking REAL triboot, windows, linux, apple all on one computer. I'm alread running dual boot anyway, 3 paritions, 2 for OSs, and 1 for general data. And another external for mostly anime eps, they take up a huge amount of space.
Xp has windows compatibility, too bad longhorn will really gets rid of DOS...which is good too...
Tri boot's not new, just that few people try it. Just wait, when apple fully goes intel, then we're talking REAL triboot, windows, linux, apple all on one computer. I'm alread running dual boot anyway, 3 paritions, 2 for OSs, and 1 for general data. And another external for mostly anime eps, they take up a huge amount of space.
Xp has windows compatibility, too bad longhorn will really gets rid of DOS...which is good too...
HaTcH - July 19, 2005 09:33 PM (GMT)
Update on the IDE thing, well I got this one card that has one ATA IDE port and 2 sata ports. I figured that well my power supply has 2 sata power connectors, I have the cables, all I need to get better performance is go SATA. Well my old IDE controller card was overheating the devices attached to it (wtf?) so I figured I might as well go with the best of both worlds!
Hopefully I can save up some more cash to get a SATA drive or 2 (maybe do a RAID setup, anyone have any advice? The card supports RAID 0, 1 0+1 and JBOD, but I really have no idea)
Hopefully I can save up some more cash to get a SATA drive or 2 (maybe do a RAID setup, anyone have any advice? The card supports RAID 0, 1 0+1 and JBOD, but I really have no idea)