[ale] Dual boot setup

[Randal Jarrett]

The only way that I know of to install windows after you already
have Linux installed is to have a Linux boot disk, Use one of the 
many programs to shrink the Linux partition down to give you room
to install windows.  Use the same partition pkg to make a new partition
in windows format for the version of windows that you are installing
such as fat32 or ntfs.

Then install windows very carefully picking the second partition, 
your new windows partition.

Once windows is installed, use your Linux bootdisk to boot your
Linux partition.

At this point you need to re-setup your boot manager, grub or lilo.

Hopefully if everything goes ok and you prayed to the right gods then
you will now have a dual boot system.

You did make a backup of your important stuff from your Linux partition
didn't you?????

Randy

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 01:30 -0200, Gonzalo Seoane wrote:
> maby you want to run a virtual machine ,.. for windows :P ,... you can
> do this with vmware ,...
> windows over write the media boot record , ( mbr ) and then you will
> not be able to boot linux ,.. or maby you can install windows ,... run
> a live cd linux and reinstall grub  ( grub-install ) mounting your HD
> on /boot/grub and make the reinstall ,.... its only a solution but i
> dont know if this works good 
> 2006/11/13, Mark Wright <mpwright at speedfactory.net>:
>         Hi Jim
>         
>         I have never been able to get windows to boot without
>         installing it
>         first.  The windows installer will over write your mbr and
>         mess up
>         your linux install.  Never figured out how to stop it.   I
>         just
>         started doing without windows.
>         
>         Back in the day, I used to do a clean install of 2K using
>         windows
>         installer to set aside a big partition for Linux.
>         
>         Mark
>         
>         
>         On Nov 12, 2006, at 8:54 PM, Jim Popovitch wrote: 
>         
>         > I've got a laptop with linux on 100% of the harddrive.  What
>         I want to
>         > do is add a small Win2K install (dual boot, grub) for
>         testing.  Does
>         > win2k need to be in the first partition?   Any other
>         advice? 
>         >
>         > -Jim P.
>         >
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