I have a 80G harddrive. Currently, I am thinking of installing FreeBSD, windows2003 and Fedora Core 4 on the harddrive. I do not have any important data on the harddrive. This is harddrive is meant to let me mess around. Does anyone have any experience on this kind of installation? Can you please share the experience with me. Thank you very much.
By the way, what tool can do I need to reparition my harddrive, I know there are a varity of choices, but I can not decide which one to choose?
Also, can anyone tell the filesystem of windows2003, I installed once but forgot the exactly filesystem it uses. Is it the same as NFTS or it's another new kind of filesystem.

I have many tools, such as slackware10.1 install disks, knoppix, FC4,
Listing out only to see if any one of them might be helpful with the installation.

My PC has XP, Adamantix and OpenBSD. I was able to boot to any of these OS through Adamatix grub.

I first installed XP and leave enough for OpenBSd and Adamantix.

Just use fdisk, that should be supplied with any distro. Partition it anyway you want, then all you have to do is install the distros and configure your bootloader(I like lilo but others prefer grub). As far as windows 2003 filesystem, it should be NTFS. I've heard of server 2003 but never just windows2003. Through from 2k NTFS has been the standard. I would suggest installing windows first then installing the other os's. Windows has a problem sometimes dealing with other OSs on the drive.

If I use either cfdisk or fdisk to repartition the harddrive, and I must choose a partition to be bootable, which one should I choose at the moment, Windows partition, liunx partition, or freebsd partition?

Make Windows the bootable since it will be the first to be installed.

In my case I partitioned Adamantix and OpenBSD using Linux fdisk through Slackware CD and just changed the OpenBSD partition to type "a6" so that OpenBSD can see a partition where it can create labels.

Maybe you can try this order of installations:

1. Windows
2. FreeBSD
3. FC4

Use Linux fdisk to create FreeBSD and FC4/Linux partitions.

OH BAD~~~

I installed all of that in the following older already
Window
FC4
FreeBSD

I am still working on FC4, the yum update takes so long to complete.~~~

Is this order okay?

As long as you installed first Windows and then just edit your grub config to include both Windows and FBSD.

-- OpenBSD is a very good Firewall ! --