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That is the best way for a mult-boot situation. Install XP - install - Partition Magic - install boot magic - spend some time thinking out how many OS you will want - create and format all the partitions. You will share one swap partition for all linux OS. You will have to mount the linux boot loader for each OS in its own partition(some linux flavours will let you install in the home partition). You can configure one linux boot loader to boot the other linux OS as well but its more complicated if there is different kernals. You can then use Boot Magic to boot all OS. I have had up to 9 different OS installed using this method. PM 7 does not recoqnize Rieserfs file system but I think 8 does. Hope this helps. Its a blast having all those choices but now I have dropped back to just XP, Mandrake, and Redhat. I will probably drop RH for something else like the new Yoper eventually.
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