triple (multiple) booting

[Ripping]

I'm a small playa with Linux.. using RH 7.2 on a couple of machines where I boot up into win98 or Linux from my config.sys file. I have linux on a seperate HD, and that setup works well for me.
With my new machine... I can do the same... but I'm wanting to put on XP as well as '98 and Red Hat 7.3.
I get the idea XP's boot methods are a little different and this config.sys approach may not work.
Now I know about LILO and grub... but I've always preferred the other route where your MBR isn't touched.

Is anyone else doing similar ? triple booting... or even just dual booting with XP/linux.
What are your methods ?

cheers .. :)

[swiftynz]

yes and this is how i would do it.

1) partition your hard drives into 5 partitions:
*1 - 98
*2 - xp
*3 - linux root
*3 - linux swap

i woud use 1 gb for win98, several all up for linux and the rest for xp but thats just me. it depends on how you're going to use each OS of course.

2) install 98
3) install XP

now u have a dual boot system :)

4) install RH 7.2 but do NOT modify the mbr. instead you install it to the start on the linux partition. when prompted though you MUST create a boot disk, otherwise you wont be able to load linux. when you're in linux you extract the boot record from the floppy and reboot to windows. then you add an entry into your boot.ini (something like ":\linux.bin = "Linux") and you can choose 98, xp or RH in your windows boot loader. i will have to find you the link on how to do the above proceedures but it worked like a charm for me :)

/edit:
found one link http://www.ntcompatible.com/faq230.shtml but it wasn't the one i was thinking of...
*goes back to searching*

/edit 2:
http://www.enterprisedt.com/publications/dual_boot.html

/edit3:
and finally, this one seems to be the best:
http://www.mastincrosbie.com/mark/linux-ob6k/win2k.html

[Ripping]

excellent swiftynz.. thanks for the post.. I'll get into some reading.