[ale] Linux & Win 2000

[Dunlap, Randy]

Follow-up question:

Will fips or Partition Magic or gpart work with NTFS5
partitions?

I have a new machine with Win2K pre-installed.
I don't really want to reinstall Win2K -- just change
the partitions and install Linux on it.

TIA,
~Randy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Smith [mailto:MSmith at webtonetech.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 7:18 AM
> To: 'Kentauros'; 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.
> 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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