Quadruple boot

Anybody here tried?

[operafan]

I would like to have 98,W2k server,XP & Linux to on the same harddisk.
I dont plan to use any partition software. Any complications & screw ups?

[Krapulator]

Im sure you're about to discover some new ones! ;-)

[operafan]

Hmmmmmm

[karmov]

I hate to ask what is potentially a dumb question, but do you really need all those OSes? A nice KVM switch might save you tons of grief.

[operafan]

Yeah, I love to experiment on the last 2 while the first 2 is for work.

KVM - but I ain't got another PC, just bought a new one , on a tight budget here. If not I wouldnt be doing this. Anyway..I'll probaly get it down to 3. Keeping linux of course :)

[encyclo]

Four? Only four?! Wimp! Try 37!:

[maximumpc.com...]

I, of course, wouldn't fream of saying that this guy should get out more... ;)

[operafan]

I've read that there's this guy with up to 57 OS?.
Well started my journey last night, can't even get to format my harddisk.

Reason being this HD is already installed with win98se and I got new hardware. So when I booted it up, it started the windows 98 splash page & then when into saying UDMA 4 after which with a sentence of jibberish & then Abort?

I tried inserting a bootable floppy drive inside but still it wont boot up from the floppy so that I can format it, any body got a way round it?

[bill]

How about a bootable CD? I used something called the ultimate boot cd recently. There are a bunch of these ISO images out there that have a number of recovery/formatting tools on them.

[nalin]

Back to the original question

You may have to jump through hoops with grub/lilo [linux bootloaders] to get that many (read 2 or more) windows installs on the same HD - they will all want to be the primary bootable partition [c:\ aka /dev/hda1]. Linux with that kind of setup will play nice though...

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Any complications & screw ups?

How about: only complications & screw ups...

[operafan]

Not deciding to waste much time, I stuck with 1 OS only :)
Later only will I venture into Nix OS, though I'm loving grep now via Cygwin.. can anyone teach me the command to export the results to a text file after grepping the contents wanted. I tried
" grep love abc.txt export a.txt " & few other permutations without success.

Can anyone help.

With regards to my OS, I installed XP on my office pc, having the same motherboard spec as my home, but the processor & RAM speed is lower in my office.

So when I plugged me harddrive into my home PC, everything works fine except the CDROM & Floppy which the motherboard can detect but the OS just tells me to insert disk even after inserting disc- it's definitely not the disc... so what could be the problem