Need Help: Windows NT/95/Linux

Jürgen Pabel

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Mar 18, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/18/98

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Hi,
i want to buy a new computer soon, i think i will go with 2 eide
harddrives.
I want to install windows nt4.0 workstation in german and english. also
i want to install a partition of win95 and linux.
I need both the english and german nt versions, since i have some
software for the german nt version, but i also have some stuff that i
want to run under the english one.
I need the 95 partition for games and the linux to fool around with

my question is : can i set these on 2 eide hdd -or will i need scsi ?
-is there any bootmanager that will reliably handle those on one 6gig
eide hdd ??

-if i use scsi, how reliable are those $50 controllers?-should i invest
in the 200$ for an adaptec controler??

how about those 2 versions of nt, will they coexist without problems?
and what about the lilo bootmanager, can it handle the things i want to
do ?

any help is greatly appreciated !!!
jp.
juer...@felix.cc.gatech.edu

Keith Harshaw

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Mar 18, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/18/98

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The dual EIDE controller solution will work. My current setup has:
Disk 0 Partition 0 Win95 (500MB) FAT16
Partition 1 Shared FAT, No OS (1.0 GB)
Partition 2 WinNT 4 (500MB) FAT
Parition 3 SCO 5.0.4 (1.2 GB)
Disk 1 Partition 0 Linux Swap (64 MB)
Parition 1 Linux (1.0 GB)
Partition 2 NTFS (700 MB)

I'm using System Commander currently but have used ntloader with a similar
arrangement by coping the MBRs of Linux and SCO to files on my C: drive and
editing boot.ini to load these MBRs.

My guess is you will not get a SCSI card you can use to boot with for $50.

LILO is usable but needs a lot of tweaking to get everything correct. I'm
using it with System Commander by writting it to the super block of Linux's
partition.

I've never had two instances of NT installed for the same version different
language but did run NT4 and NT3.51 together without incident.

If you have specific questions, email me.

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Steve Fielding

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Mar 19, 1998, 3:00:00 AM3/19/98

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In article <350FE7C9...@felix.cc.gatech.edu>, Jürgen Pabel
<juer...@felix.cc.gatech.edu> writes
[snip]

>my question is : can i set these on 2 eide hdd -or will i need scsi ?
>-is there any bootmanager that will reliably handle those on one 6gig
>eide hdd ??

[snip]

You should have no problem with two EIDE drives. NT is OK with more than
one copy on the same drive.
The LINUX will also work but is a good idea to make sure that the LINUX
partitions are at the beggining of the disk (it doesn't matter if this
is first or second disk but ife you ever get three disks don't put LINUX
on the third one as LILO can be a problem)
I use the NT loader to start NT, LINUX (via LILO) and DOS. To set up
LILO install it to the LINUX partition or a floppy and then
run LILO -S /dospartiton/Linux.bin to create an image of the boot
sector in a file that the NT laoder can then find by edditing boot.ini
something like the following:

[boot loader]
timeout=4
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation
Version 4.00"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation
Version 4.00 [VGA mode]" /basevideo /sos
C:\ = "MS-DOS"
C:\Linux.bin = "Linux"

Good luck!
Steve
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