[ale] Linux & Win 2000

[Michael Smith]

That's what I did on my laptop and it works just fine.  I was even running
the RH 7.0 beta......  In the RH installation towards the end, you must
select other bootable partitions and dos(actaully the NT Boot Loader) had
already been selected.  I just hit ok and when I rebooted, I was able to
boot into either OS via LILO.  I guess there must be issues with the drive
size.  I know it works.  I did it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kyle Beckman [mailto:flachebaq at hotmail.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 2:18 PM
To: MSmith at webtonetech.com; dias at freenet.nether.net; ale at ale.org
Subject: RE: [ale] Linux & Win 2000




>	Just install Win2000 first anfd then Linux.  There shouldn't be a
>problem.  Just install the LILO MBR in the first partition of your drive.

... and congratulations... you just fried your Windows 2000 installation.  
Been there... tried it... doesn't work that easy.  The NT boot loader and 
LILO don't play together unless you make them.

My suggestion is to go to http://www.linuxdoc.org/ and find the HOWTO on 
loading NT and Linux using the NT boot loader and follow it to the letter.  
I just got a 45GB drive for my home system and I'm going to be putting RH 
7.0 on it with Win2K just as soon as I'm up to date on my school work.  I 
was dual booting with Win2K and RH 6.1 earlier, but I had to kill RH because

I needed disk space (I would have preferred to kill Win2K, but CCSU would 
rather I learn the M$ ways of networking, so I have to bow to the system 
until I get into classes that it doesn't matter which operating system I 
choose).  I'll document everything that I do when I reload my system and 
send you a copy if you'd like one.  I've been thinking about submitting a 
HOWTO for that anyway.

~~Kyle

>The only issue may be the size of the drive but I think as long as the
>Master Boot Record is on your primary boot partition(dev/hda1), you
>shouldn't have any problems.  I would then use LILO to boot between
>OS's.....  but make Linux the default:)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kentauros [mailto:dias at freenet.nether.net]
>Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 10:05 AM
>To: ale at ale.org
>Subject: [ale] Linux & Win 2000
>
>
>Hi,
>I just bought a new machine with 40G space and I would like to partition
>the drive and install Win2000 and Linux. Is it possible to have linux and
>win2000 both installed in the same machine? Somebody told me that trying
>to do such a thing might kill my machine. Any ideas??
>
>Thanks
>
>Kentauros
>
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