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win98,NT and Linux

I wanted to install a multi OS system.
with win98, NT and Linux.

And I got a huge harddisk which I want
to partition. (13GB).

1. Can anyone tell me how I should
partition such that one of my partition
can be access in both win* and Linux.
The reason is that I want to use this
as /home partition in Linux and in win
a partition to store personal files.

2. how can I install NT when my win98 is
FAT32 and not FAT16 by default.
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Slok,

I've multi-booted across 95, NT, and RH
on one physical drive (ducking beer bottles) with each on an individual partition.  I recommend only creating partitions necessary to install NT and 98.  Lastly, install your flavor of Linux and the remaining physical space to include /, /usr, /home, and your swap.  If starting from scratch, it is easier, on a live file system, defrag and then run fips to non-destructively repartition your drive.  Inevitably you will migrate to a pure linux box as many of us have.

As for partition access, Linux supports ntfs (ro), fat, ncpfs, etc.  Easier to view a windows partition, but configuring Samba (smb) is realtively skate to make your Linux shares available.  Don't forget smbd and nmbd ;)  /usr/doc/~ and man "blah"

Jaa Mata,

Bill  
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can u be more detailed as I am new to this.
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barrero,

does this mean u are doing the steps
as follows :

assume clean disk (hdd):
1. boot in using setup diskette
2. fdisk
- 1 primary partition
- other extended and within partition
logical "drive"

now, my question is :
"My first partition has around 500M and is fat16, there I just have the boot installed."

when u say u only have the boot
installed on the first partition,
what are u installing there.

I know how to  install the entire win95
or win98 onto a partition but don't get
what u mean over the sentence above.