Best way to triple boot with win2k, win98se, and mandrake 8.1??

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this doesn't exactly pertain to this thread but here it goes...

first of all i have an iwill kk266-raid.

i have winows xp installed in raid 0. i wanted to install mandrake 8.1, so what i did was install an 8gig hd on ide 0 (LINUX)and a 17gig installer drive (ntfs) on ide 2. ide 1 and 3 are my cdrom and cd writer.

when i installed or boot into linux, i went in the bios and made the ide 0 the first disk to boot. when i want to boot to windows xp, i go back to the bios and make raid 100 my first disk to boot into. it only take a few sseconds so i don't mind it.

so now i don't have to worry about lilo and grub in the raid partition anymore. no more worrying about the mbr everytime (the 100th time) i install linux .

if you want to browse an ntfs partion in win98/me, download this old shareware called ntfs for 98. i think that's what it's called. it loads a driver at 98 boot up so you can browse an nt file system. the full version lets you edit the files and folder in the ntfs partion.

I figure I can add my 3-cents worth ...

I have two 15GB HDD's

Disk0 is split 50/50, Win2K & WinXP (both FAT32)
Disk1 is split 50/50, RedHat 7.1 & Mandrake 8.1
RAID0 with two 40GB HDD's NTFS

I did NOT let LILO install in MBR. You can set them both up so they use the WinNT/2K/XP bootloader.

Read this:

http://www.anandtech.com/guides/viewfaq.html?i=58