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hunterjwizzard

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All right, I've finally decided on a course of action for my pet Pentium 4. Its going to be installed in my Coolermaster Elite tower and be configured to triple-boot Windows 2000, IcarOS, and just for fun Windows XP. I have a 1tb hard drive set up for this.

The question of the day is: what order should I be looking to install these things? I'm thinking win2k --> XP --> Icaros.
 
I don't know IcarOS (Google let me to fitness machines) so I don't know if that order of installing the OSes will work. If it won't, use a boor manager.
 
All of my multiboot systems use grub. I generally start with the NT-based ones, and then add the Win/DOS ones afterwards. Reason is that the NT and later installers seem to want to seek out and modify the DOS-based ones. I suppose you could temporarily change the partition type after installing to hide them also.
 
Ruud said:
I don't know IcarOS (Google let me to fitness machines) so I don't know if that order of installing the OSes will work. If it won't, use a boor manager.
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Icaros is an Amiga-like OS that works on x86 processors. I had it booting on this motherboard earlier but wiped the hard drive for use in a different project.

It looks like Icaros includes Grub or a version of it, so maybe I'd do best starting with it.
 
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