Triple boot FC3 intallation question

Bob Brennan rbrennan96 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 26 11:34:16 UTC 2005


On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:27:25 +0300, Maxim Eremeev
<maxim_eremeev at umail.ru> wrote:
> Bob Brennan wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 10:57:14 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Bob Brennan wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>I have a Pentium III PC with Windows ME and Win2k Pro currently
> >>>dual-booting. For reasons not important to this question I want to
> >>>keep both current OS's and add FC3.
> >>>
> >>>I am well practised in setting up the proper partitions for such an
> >>>installation but am wondering in advance if anyone knows if all 3 OS's
> >>>will now be available in the FC3 boot loader, which I usually choose
> >>>as the default Grub loader.
> >>>
> >>>Thanks in advance for advice / warnings.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>If you install grub in the MBR, you'll get a choice of two entries in
> >>the grub menu, one for FC3 and one for DOS/Windows. When you select the
> >>DOS/Windows entry, you'll get the Win2K boot menu that you currently
> >>see, allowing you to choose between WinME and Win2K.
> >>
> >>Paul.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Thanks for that quick answer Paul. I will cross my fingers, take a
> >deep breath, and go for it. And yes, most importantly backup anything
> >important to CDR before starting.
> >
> >bob
> >
> >
> >
> Well, at least you'll be able to recover the Windows loader through the
> recovery console (if something goes wrong).
> Maxim

Just for my own clarification and for archive readers - I assume you
mean the Recovery option on the #1 installation CD? (not something
I've had to use yet)

bob




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