In about two weeks I'm planning to reformat my HD and install Windows 2000 (SP3), Red Hat 9 and Slackware 9.1 Out of my twenty GB hard drive I plan to give Windoze about 10 gigs and split the other 10 gigs between RH and Slack minus a swap partition. Now;
Windows is finicky and wants to be on the MBR. I don't want to create an extended partition for a /boot partition for linux. So... how should I do this? I am planning to install Windoze, RH and then Slack (in that order) after partitioning with fsck + Slack. Should I rewrite the MBR with lilo after I'm finished installing everything and use that to boot everything? Should I put Windoze on the MBR and boot linux from two separate floppies or should I create a boot CD-ROM and use that in lieu of a boot floppy?

ibm5_25

I have never had a problem with W2k booting from Lilo. If this was me, I would install W2k, then RH and Slack and use RH's lilo bootloader to load all three.

So I just tell lilo to boot /dev/hdc1 for the first partition of my HD that has Windows on it? That would be accomplished in the RH9 setup or editing lilo.conf?
I'm assuming that would be putting lilo on the MBR?

Yes, install Windows, then install RH9. During the install of RH9 you will want to install lilo to the MBR which, in your case, would be the first part of the first partition for windows.

rberry88