Redhat comes with Grub as a default OS loader. Grub is advanced OS loader which allows you to do many things before you even boot. In my experience it's better than LILO, the other OS loader. You do not need to run any configuration command like lilo with Grub. Grub allows you to simply edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and the configuration becomes effective right away. Grub has many commands accessible at it's prompt. It's somewhat similar to Sun loader embedded in EEPROM on their systems. Partitions do not need to be hidden from each other. While Linux or other Unix like OSes are able to read windows partitions or even write, neither W95 nor NT, that's practicaly all Microsoft's OSes are not able to read Linux partitions. That means you have to think about how you are going to share files between the OSes if needed. Even better would be to use different disk drives for different OSes but that would not change the way OS loaders work. Again, Grub is more powerfull IMO. I suggest you partition Linux with traditional number of Unix partitions for easier maintenance, backups, upgrades, and security reasons. On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 06:29:49PM -0400, Barbara J Wagreich wrote: > Hi All: > > I'm new to linux but have worked on UNIX. > > I'm sure you've discussed this topic before. I'd appreciate your > feedback. > > I am having a PC set up with three operating systems: > DOS/Windows 98, Windows 2000, and red Hat linux 7.2. I will be using > brltty > (I can't hear). A friend is doing this for me. (I would be using JFW > with Windows 98 and Windows 2K.) > > what is the best way to set up the multiboot sothat I can choose which OS > I want to invoke? Also, should the three partitions containing the 3 > operating systems be hidden from each other? > > Thanks for your help! > Barbara Wagreich -- Rafael The Gap Between the Rich and the Poor is Constant.