This is how mine was done at one point. I Had two drives. One master one IDE 0 and one master on IDE 1. I installed Linux Mandrake on The second HDD on IDE 1. Then I installed Win2000 Pro on the first HDD IDE 0 (not: on some systems its IDE 1 and IDE 2 even different if you have raid, another story for another thread). Then the Win2000 boot loader came me a choice. This also works sometimes in XP.

For LILO I had no problem with W95 OSR2 thru W98SE. Once and a while a glich with Win2000 as it would'nt load .dir services. No luck at all with dual booting XP with LILO.

Personaly. The best way is to setup a small home network. You can get an older P233 MMX for next to nothing. I will run LInux great. Put Linux on it and get a Linksys hub or router and have fun. You can get practice by changing the internal IP's and attepting to break into the Win32 box from your Linux box. It's make for good practice in securing your box. It will teach you how to lock it down so to speak.