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/dev/hda1: 1 GB for Windows 98
/dev/hda2: 2 GB for Windows 2000
/dev/hda3: /boot (100 MB?)
/dev/hda4: extended partition
/dev/hda5: swap (1 or 2 * your RAM)
/dev/hda6: / for RedHat 7 (3 or 4 GB)
/dev/hda7: / for RedHat 8 (3 or 4 GB)
/dev/hda8: /home/
Why do you want to install both RedHat 7 and RedHat 8? You are wasting a lot of space.
Oh, install Windows 98 first, then Windows 2000, then RedHat 7, save your /boot/, install RedHat 8, copy your RedHat 7 kernel to /boot/ again and change grub.conf accordingly.
Distribution: RH 6.2, Gen2, Knoppix,arch, bodhi, studio, suse, mint
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win98 and 2000 can go in the same partition if you want.
you can just have 2 big logical partitions for the hat's, or
1 in a primary and another in a logical. however you wish.
but, you can only have 4 primary partitions. an extended
partition with logical drives in it count against that total as
1. you can install lilo in the root partition of each install,
and use a different boot loader of your choice to get to
those boot sectors. the nt boot loader, lilo or grub. the
old version of lilo with the redhat 7.x might not be able
to boot past 8 gigs into the drive.
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