You don't need to install an OS on the first partition. It just needs
to be large enough to hold the boot program. XP has its own boot loader
which can fit on a tiny partition. The actual OS's go on larger
partitions. Doing this is one way to manage a variety of different OS's
and they never actually touch the boot partition. This way when an OS
takes out the partition due to catastrophic failure you can still boot
to the other systems.
Vern
Charles R. Buchanan wrote:
While you are correct, it is usually *highly* recommended that Win9x be
installed first. Also I have a question, how can you manage to install
XP with a 1mb partition?
On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 01:06:15 -0700, Vernon Balbert <vbalbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> had this to say:
VB> Actually, you don't need to have Win98 installed first. Just make sure VB> that the primary partition on the first hard drive is a FAT partition. VB> It doesn't even need to be very big. In fact, for most drives you can VB> make it the minimum size a partition can be and you can do it. (You VB> need at least enough space to hold the boot files. A 1 MB partition is VB> large enough.)
VB> VB> Vern
Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage - SP
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