Install DOS/Windows first (use fdisk to partition the disk
	into the apropriate areas), then pfdisk to setup the
	partition IDs and your favourite boot manager (I use OSBS
	for my win / NetBSD  setups - I would guess it would work
	with Linux & BSDI as well).

	I would expect you should be able to share swap between the
	un*xes by fiddling the disklabels, but windows might prove
	a problem...

		David/abs	david@{mono.org,southern.com,mhm-internet.com}

Thought for : Loathing the way "Don't cry for me Argentina" has
  the day   : been bastardized by Madonna into a 'disco' song.

On Wed, 5 Feb 1997, Michael Richardson wrote:

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>   I'm about to replace a 200Mb drive on a 486/66 with a 1.6Gb IDE +
> IDE cdrom. This is my occasional DOS/Win3 (now win95) machine
> (accounting, M$ crap, games).
>   [I actually have a 300Mb drive too on this system. I also have a
> dual channel VLB controller that I'll probably swap in. My BIOS
> doesn't support four (3+cdrom) drives, and I don't currently have
> enough power connectors, or mounting spaces]
> 
>   I expect that I may wind up doing some Windows NT work on it
> eventually. I don't have NT here right now.
>   I *will* be doing some work with BSDi in the next two months. 
>   I will be booting a NetBSD kernel-du-jour for testing of an ISDN
> driver. I can probably do this with a floppy.
>   I would like to have Linux installed somewhere.
>   I don't expect to do both BSDi and NT at the same time, and I have
> an old SCSI disk+1542 that is sitting in the closet with BSDi on it
> already. 
>   So, I cound three OSs:
> 	- win95, eventually NT
> 	- NetBSD
> 	- Linux
> 	- ??? -- could be installed in common swap if necessary.
> 
>   It would be nice to share swap space between NetBSD and Linux. Win95/NT
> too if possible.
>   My bios is also old enough that it only handles 1023
> cylinders. Win95 doesn't care, I think. (I've never installed win95
> before :-)
>   Can I have some comments on the following plan:
> 	partition 1: 504Mb DOS partition
> 	partition 2: 200Mb "swap" 
> 	partition 3: 400Mb Linux (probably redhat)
> 	partition 4: 400Mb NetBSD
> 	
>   Problem: the 200Mb swap may not available to DOS/Win95/WinNT? 
> 
>   What order of installation should I do? 
> 
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