triple boot or more

[rayman]

Hi all...i'am new here..

Just wondering if it's possible to have more than dual boot OS...

i know linux/winxp is possible...but not very sure...if win98 with winxp and win 2003 is possible?

Please advice...thx you.

[Screwz Luse]

uuuummm... I would think it's possible if you partition the hard drive before hand but I'm curious why you'd want to do this? Seems like a lot of wasted effort. heh....

[spazmire11]

yes it is possible just make sure you install the os's in order aka

win98 then winxp then win2003

[jaclaz]

Yes, it is perfectly possible.

Here is a fairly simple guide:

http://thpc.info/dualboot.html

You can have as many operating system as you want in the NTLDR boot menu, there are some precautions to be made, and in some cases you need additional utilities, if multi-booting Operating Systems of the same "family" i.e DOS/WIN9x/ME or NT/Win2k/XP/2003, on the same partition, more notably choosing the filesystem and the "common" paths/files that you may have "shared" by two operating systems.

Doing it on different partitions is even documented by Microsoft:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/s.../multiboot.mspx

To achieve the same thing on the same partition, in your case of 98+XP+2003, the partition MUST be FAT32 (for win98, and a FAT16 partition, apart from taking a lot of unused space would be too little for the three of them) and one of either XP or Server 2003 must be installed in "Unattended mode" so that you can change the default settings, such as "Documents and settings", "Programs", etc.

jaclaz

[pmshah]

I use BootIT Ng - Boot & Partition manager. I have Win 95, 98SE, ME, 2k, XP-sp1 & Sp2 running in their own individual partitions. I also have 9 flavours of Linux on the same 120 GB HDD. I have all these without any OS encroching or sharing resources with any other OS. It supports upto 36 primary partitions & 200 OSes if you have the room. Has built in Imaging/Cloning/Manipulating capabilities.

It is a shareware worth paying for.