[ale] Installing linux on win 2000 partition

[hirsch at zapmedia.com]

John Wells writes:
 > Well,
 > 
 > I've install rh 7.2 with grub, but grub won't start
 > because it's not in the mbr.  Do you actually use
 > grub, or do you use the Win bootloader as specified in
 > the NT dual boot how-to?

I put grub in the MBR and boot NT from it.  I remember that the dual
boot howto has all kinds of complicated intructions, but I really
don't think it is needed any more.

 > Thanks,
 > John
 > 
 > --- hirsch at zapmedia.com wrote:
 > > John Wells writes:
 > >  > I have a win 2000 machine with two partitions, c:
 > > and
 > >  > d:.  I want to install RedHat 7.2 over the d:
 > >  > partition.  Could anyone point me to a document
 > > that
 > >  > will walk me through this?  I'm assuming it's not
 > > as
 > >  > simple as dual-booting Win 98 and RH.
 > > 
 > > I've loaded RedHat 7.1 and mandrake 8.1 on a
 > > partition of a laptop
 > > that already had w2k on it without any difficulties.
 > >  Lilo and Grub
 > > are both pretty smart, nowadays.
 > > 
 > > My only advice is: If redhat can do grub, use grub. 
 > > 
 > > 
 > > --Michael
 > > 
 > > 
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