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I am planning on installing: Suse 9.3 Pro AMD64 Fedora Core 4 AM64 Windows 2000 Pro Windows XP Pro I use Win2K Pro to be able to fix problems in XP Pro OS. So I usually give it a small area to just boot from. I want to start working with Suse 9.3 because I have my CNE. Fedora Core 4 will give me Redhat experience and I can get help from several friends, if I have problems. Over the last weekend, was able to install Redhat 9 and Windows 2003 Server in dual boot on my test server. Here is my method. Will it work with Fedora Core 4. Base hardware in workstation: Tyan Thunder K8W Dual AMD 240 Opterons 3GB DDR400 RAM LSI Logic MegaRAID 320-2X PCI-X SCSI RAID controller Adaptec 39160 for LVD tape drives, SCSI-UW CD-ROM, and SCSI-2 DVD-ROM Visiontek Ti4600 GF4 video Hercules GTXP 7.1 sound Adaptec duoconnect USB2/FW controller for Plextor PX-708UF and PX716UF DVD burners SCSI RAID 1: (34GB) C: 100 MB FAT32 for common boot files of all operating system /boot 100MB / 8GB D: Windows 2000 Pro OS NTFS SCSI RAID 1: (34GB) E: 14 GB Windows XP Pro OS NTFS SCSI RAID 10:(102GB) F: Windows apps and games SCSI RAID 0: (102GB) S: 60GB NTFS XP Pro paging, all temp files 21 GB extended Linux partition for Suse 9.3 2 GB /swap Suse 9.3 reamining space for Suse 9.3 other directories 21 GB extended Linux partition for FC4 2GB /swap FC4 remaining space for FC4 other directories Load order Create C: parition and install Windows 2000 Pro Install XP Pro Install FC4 Install Suse 9.3 Using Grub for boot loader Will this work? e-mail me with questions or comments: mckennma@wideopenwest.com Thank you for any help or comments, Michael.

It worked perfectly. I spread the Linux partitions across the four SCSI RAID arrays. I can boot into all three partitions. I did have to edit grub.conf to other to be Windows. I just logged in as root and made the change. The 100MB FAT parition and adding 100MB /boot partition on same array allowed everything to load. I manually configured all the paritions. First, Grub loads with both SMP FC4 AMD64 version, standard FC4, and Windows. In 20 seconds Windows boots as primary OS. Then, it switches to the Windows boot manager with XP Pro and 2K Pro. XP Pro is primary OS. I hope this helps someone.

I was able to dual boot Redhat 9 and Windows 2003 Server on my test network. I created a 100 MB C: FAT32 partition for common boot files. Installed Windows 2003 Server onto D: on a separate hard drive in FAT32. When I installed Redhat 9, I put the /boot 100 MB partition on the same drive as C:. The / parition below it. The /swap partition went on the other drive with Win2003. I used Grub. You need FAT parition for Linux and Windows to both understand. Windows should load its boot files on C:. Grub will understand it.