Rafaeland John: Thanks for the info about grub. Yousay it's accessible. What screen reader neds to be running in order to see the prompt to specify the OS I want to invoke? Or would I jsut type blindly when I think the grub prompt has been displayed? Yousaid it's accessible. I woudl be using brltty for linux and Jaws for windows 98/2K. thanks, Barb On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Rafael Skodlar,,, wrote: > 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >