Help on partitioning my drive?

[whampastompa]

Hi, I'm trying to partition my harddrive to have 98, 2000 or XP, and redhat. Now I don't want to get into a discussion of whether redhat is the best, but it is required for my languages and translation class.

It is a 40 gig harddrive, but I'd be perfectly happy to upgrade it.

Anyway, step by step help would be great...including which os I should use, which order it needs to be in, and of course how exactly to do it. There is nothing on the harddrive that I want, so that is not a factor. Anywhoo, thanks.

[danee]

SO your wanting three OS's on the one HD ?
Well i work with 2, but im not to sure about three.

To start, partition the drive into 3 segments. I presume you can do this ?

Install Win 98SE first, to any partitions.
Next install 2000,.. it will prompt whether to upgrade/replace 98, or to make a 2nd OS. Obviously install this onto a different partitioned segment to the one running 98.
Now you got 2 installed... but i think if you try and do this again with a 3rd OS, the Win boot system could fail, as i think it was only designed for 2.

So... maybe look around for some software.
Partion Magic, may assist you here.

[MoxManiac]

You can also get software programs like System Commander that will let you use multiple OSes.

[krazefinn]

You should choose about 2gigs for each separate OS. And add a second 1-2 gig driver, keeper program, and patches/updates/cab files only, with the last data partition for all other stuff. Never install other programs onto OS partitions, reduces fragmentation and corruption possibilities tremendously.

Also specify to handle the swap manually, and choose size inversely proportional to physical quantity ram installed, with only 64 megs, would want about 500 min=max swap, 128, 400 mb, 256 = about 300, no less than 200 in any case.

Also set the typical role of this computer to server via sys info, just b4 you open device manger.