I have a system running win me and red hat 7.0, i would like to try windows xp (the $10 download) without doing a fresh install over my existing windows me drive. i have have a 30 gig hard drive with with 6 partitions, (ME, linux, linux swap, win swap, and two for storage) i'd like to install xp on one of the storage drives, i use lilo to boot linux and xp, if someone could steer in in the right direction on the best way to do this. also would i be able to get to my existing windows me files and apps through xp. and other info would be greatly appreciated...

This might be of some use: NEWSGROUP: microsoft.public.whistler.professional.general made triple boot with win98, win2k, whistler Saturday, April 28, 2001 12:07 PM I made a triple boot as follows: format the whole drive First partition, which is C:\ and primary, FAT32 with win98, during install I renamed WINDOWS -> WIN98. From win98, I started the win2000 installation onto the same partition, i.e. also C.\ into WINNT (which is default), then I created 2 more primary partions D and E with NTFS 5.0 of win2k. After the installation of win2000 completed, I started the installation of whistler from win2000. Since I always mark the option "let me choose the installation partition", during the installation process, I create the fourth partition, now under control of whistler, thus NTFS 5.1. and extended primary and named F:\, systemroot for whistler is F:\WINDOWS. Both %systemroots% C:\WIN98 and C:\WINNT co-exist without any trouble on the same partition formatted with FAT32. On the other hand systemroot for whistler should reside on its own partition, F:\ in my case, since win2k is designed with NTSF5.0 (FAT32 is OK too) and whistler with NTFS5.1. In this triple boot the file BOOT.INI resides also (as a hidden file) in C:\. Have read about many cases where they can't boot anymore because NTLDR was not found - in many cases the file boot.ini got changed.. With WIN98 left on C:\ (it takes only about 280MB to keep it there even if you never load win98) it is easy to access C and edit boot.ini and get going again without any loss of data - even for those not familiar with recovery conosle. boot.ini gets messed up if you install win98 after win2k, also installing win2k after whistler if your partition organization is unfortunate. So the correct sequence should always be: win98 first on first primary as FAT32, win2000 second, also on first primary (FAT32) or second primary as NTFS5.0, and whistler LAST on its own NTFS5.1 partition. Installing win2k once whistler is installed, you end up with corrupt files in the whistler system root. This approach keeps everything quite clean. It is really a drawback that we cannot start VS.NET from whister, OK, 2 betas should not be mixed, but I have not found one single application that runs under win2k but fails under whistler - I guess MS locked it until beta 2. Sven