Partition Magic/Boot Magic works with Win95-LinuxNew-LinuxOld for a
tri-boot system.
No experience with Win2000 or NT.

Bob Eaton

sinck@ugive.com wrote:
> 
> \_ I have a case where I have to outfit my sales
> \_ team with the abilty to boot from at least
> \_ three of MS's current windows OS's.
> \_
> \_ It has been a looooooong time since I have done
> \_ a dual boot (I use vmware, which will not work in this case),
> \_ and was wondering if a small linux distro and allowing
> \_ lilo to handle this would work.
> 
> My tri boot at home (which defaults to staring linux in <2 seconds) is
> primarily under the NT boot loader:
> 
> NTBoot:
>   linux (default)
>   win95
>   NT4
> 
> linux
>   kernel-newish
>   kernel-oldish
>   dos (back to NTBoot)
> 
> The trick with the multiboot is to install the oses in bare minimal
> mode and get the booting working before doing something silly like
> installing M$ Office in 45 mins and discovering that you have to blow
> it off.  :-)  Oh, and make C: or /dev/hda1 or whatever a nice
> partition type that *all* your OSen can see & write too.  :-)
> 
> Basically, the nt4 bootloader is just interested in knowning where the
> first 512 bytes or so are, so I strobe them from the appropriate
> partition into a magic tickle file that boot.ini knows about, and all
> is well and good.
> 
> Once you get the system set up, I'd immediately image the disk for the
> other installs...hopefully all your hardware is the same.  (excuse me
> why I die laughin').
> 
> Partition magic might have a cool off-the-shelf multiboot configurator
> doodad.  Or was that system commander?
> 
> David
> 
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