Folks, I just put together a new PC with 2 80G hard drives. For work reasons I need to set aside 1 of the drives for Linux. The other 1 I want to use for both XP and NT Server or something like that. How should I partition the 1st drive? Which formatting standard do I use on the partitions? What's the best way to set it up so that I can triple boot, ie. choose between the 3 operating systems when I startup? Any ideas much appreciated for this newbie... Thanks in advance...Bill

I just put together a new PC with 2 80G hard drives. For work reasons I need to set aside 1 of the drives for Linux. The other 1 I want to use for both XP and NT Server or something like that. How should I partition the 1st drive? Which formatting standard do I use on the partitions? What's the best way to set it up so that I can triple boot, ie. choose between the 3 operating systems when I startup? Any ideas much appreciated for this newbie... Bill, I'll second Jim's suggestion.  NT server has a 8GB limit so put that in the first partition.  XP can go second.  I'll also re-emphasize Jim's warning about letting XP setup your NT-XP dualboot.  In order to prevent XP from kicking in with its own dualboot loader, it is vital that the NT partition be hidden while XP is being installed.  This is where a decent boot manager or a partition manager comes in handy. The MS boot loader is adequate for dualbooting two MS operating systems, while grub or lilo (comes with linux) is sufficient for dualbooting a MS OS with a linux OS.  In your case (two MS OS's and one linux OS) I would recommend a third-party boot manager for best results.  My favorite freeware boot manager is XOSL (www.xosl.org).  However, if you don't already have partitioning (ala, PartitionMagic) or imaging (ala, Ghost or DriveImage) software, do yourself a big favor and use BootIt NG (www.bootitng.com) instead, an excellent 3-in-1 (boot/partition/image) manager.  You'll find the partitioning and imaging features *will* be useful.