Recommended install order on a multi-boot system?

[MinoGryphon]

Originally Posted by Coolname007

Ok, that setup SHOULD work fine, but you'll want to set the XP partition to "active" status (with Disk Management) first before installing any of the OSes. That way all of the boot files will install themselves neatly on the XP drive, and you'll be able to multiboot the 4 Windows OSes without any difficulties.

Ok done and done for setting XP to active.

but the Windows 7 partition should be fine even when it is designated as a logical partition?

[Coolname007]

Originally Posted by MinoGryphon

Ok done and done for setting XP to active.

but the Windows 7 partition should be fine even when it is designated as a logical partition?

Yes, because W7 will put its boot files (IF it installs them; it may not if it detects Vista's bootmgr/bcd already there, in which case it would only add itself to the Vista BCD) in the XP primary partition.

[MinoGryphon]

First picture shows different pins on either side:

3rd pin on motherboard is empty,



2nd pin on floppy is empty



Not sure if that is an issue.

I put in my Windows 95 CD and boot floppy


Error message:



Then I try a Vista made MS DOS boot disk, and then I try Windows 1.0 startup disk



Then I try Windows ME boot disk, which kind of works



but then CD-rom driver fails lol




Addendum:

Oh shit, just realized the floppy I thought was a windows 95 boot floppy, is a "microsoft intellipoint floppy".

Found the win 95 floppy, but it also failed to pick up the DVD rom.

Addendum:

Ok, I managed to install Windows 95, but it says insufficient memory to boot the system lol.

Forget 95.

[Coolname007]

Originally Posted by MinoGryphon

Ok, I managed to install Windows 95, but it says insufficient memory to boot the system lol.

Forget 95.

Insufficient memory?? How much memory do you have?

[MinoGryphon]

Originally Posted by Coolname007

Insufficient memory?? How much memory do you have?

On that machine, 2 GB.

[Coolname007]

Weird. Info found on the Internet suggests the minimum for 95 is 32 MBs, though your computer will work much better with 64 MBs.

HowStuffWorks "How Much RAM Do You Need?"

[kairozamorro]

The problem is its older software and you meet the requirements 64 times over. You're best VMing 95.

[MinoGryphon]

Yea, I'm going to go with not having Win95, and just VMing it.

Heh well I installed, Ubuntu and Fedora the other day. I'm not sure if I installed Grub properly. But they both worked after installation.



Anyway though, I'm having problems installing Mac OS X. It seems to not recognize my sata drive or needs a driver or something (kext?).

"AppleNForceATA: warning: phy connection failed. status 0x00000000"

and then later on

"SAM Multimedia: READ or WRITE failed, SENSE_KEY = 0x03, ASC = 0x11, ASCQ = 0x00"