I have personally have had a similar problem, when one of my known
person wanted to install OpenBSD, Win2k, NT, and Linux multi-boot.

Here is how I did it, which made it much less painful for him, and
easier to manipulate.

Disk Size : 20 G

For OpenBSD : 5 G
Win2k : 5 G
NT : 5 G
Linux : 5 G

First Off, I created a 50 MB small "Active" Primary Dos(FAT16)
Partition. Then I created one primary 5 GB FAT32 Partition. The rest I
created One Big Extended paritiotion with 2, 5 G of FAT 32 Parition.

For Linux, I created one 3 GB Linux native one 1.5 GB Linux native, and
rest 500MB Linux swap.

So now I ended up with a Disk something like this

___________________________________________________________________
| C: | D: || E: || F: || 3G || 1.5 G || 500M |
____________________________________________________________________

C: - Small 50 MB Active Boot Parition (for our boot loader)
D: - 5 GB FAT32 Parition(Will be our OpenBSD parition, we will change
the ID to A6 during OpenBSD install)
E: - 5 GB FAT32 Extended Parition( Will be converted to NFS to
accomodate winNT)
F: - 5 GB FAT32 Extended Parition( Will be converted to NFS to
accomodate Win2k)
3 GB Linux native ( / )
1.5 GN Linux native ( /home)
500M - Linux swap

Ok, now we install, WinNT, Win2k and then Linux. During Linux LILO
install choose to install LILO on the Pri. Parition of the hardrive, and
NOT MBR.

Install, OpenBSD, and change the ID of D: from FAT32 to A6, and go about
creating the paritions as usual.

Now Install, a bootloader called xosl(www.xosl.org), and choose to
install it on a Disk, and install it on C:\
Configuring it, choose to Boot Windows, Boot C:\ which brings up a menu
to boot NT or 2k.

Boot the next type A6 parition for OpenBSD, and linux native 3GB for
Linux.(Pretty easy, actually, as the GUI is very nice and very easy to
understand).

Well, that's it folks. Now even if you have to reinstall any OS, install
it again on the parition of your choice, and just reinstall XOSL(very
easily done).

Hope that helps someone.

-Kevin

-- 
Kevin Sindhu
Systems Engineer        			E-Mail: kevintgivan.com
TGI Technologies Inc.				Tel: (604) 872-6676 Ext 321
107 E 3rd Ave,					Fax: (604) 872-6601
Vancouver,BC V5T 1C7
Canada.

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