Another stupid newbie question
After a filesystem crash yesterday (my own fault, that shitty power supply was long overdue for replacement, and gave out plenty of warnings) I decided to rebuild my workstation from scratch.
I have two drives - 80GB and 100GB. The 100GB is for data, 80GB is for systems.
My aim is to have a quad boot - Windows 98 for pcAnywhere 8 (I need it to connect to point-of-sale computers running DOS and pcAnywhere 5 - version 8 is the last one compatible with it, and it doesn't run on NT), Windows 2000 Professional for some specific software that isn't XP-friendly, Windows XP for most of the work, and Fedora for messing around with Linux (which I do whenever I have some spare time - meaning rarely enough).
Now, what exactly is the "right" way to do it? I'm thinking about creating a 5GB primary FAT32 partition, installing Win98 on it, then a 10GB NTFS 3.0 partition for Win2K and install, then a 40GB NTFS 3.1 partition for WinXP, and when it's all complete, run the Fedora install to squeeze it into the remaining 20GB. The data drive is a single FAT32 secondary partition, to keep it readable under all OS'es.
Will Fedora installer be able to make sense of all the resulting mess and configure grub appropriately, or will I have to do manual configuration? What hidden trouble do I have to watch for? Am I making sense at all? :)
I have two drives - 80GB and 100GB. The 100GB is for data, 80GB is for systems.
My aim is to have a quad boot - Windows 98 for pcAnywhere 8 (I need it to connect to point-of-sale computers running DOS and pcAnywhere 5 - version 8 is the last one compatible with it, and it doesn't run on NT), Windows 2000 Professional for some specific software that isn't XP-friendly, Windows XP for most of the work, and Fedora for messing around with Linux (which I do whenever I have some spare time - meaning rarely enough).
Now, what exactly is the "right" way to do it? I'm thinking about creating a 5GB primary FAT32 partition, installing Win98 on it, then a 10GB NTFS 3.0 partition for Win2K and install, then a 40GB NTFS 3.1 partition for WinXP, and when it's all complete, run the Fedora install to squeeze it into the remaining 20GB. The data drive is a single FAT32 secondary partition, to keep it readable under all OS'es.
Will Fedora installer be able to make sense of all the resulting mess and configure grub appropriately, or will I have to do manual configuration? What hidden trouble do I have to watch for? Am I making sense at all? :)
