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Re: Dual-Boot Win2K & Debian



Yep, it works if you treat it like 98...

Thanks for the info!

Got it working first shot after I got a couple of responses that it
doesn't do anything strange with the boot...

On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 05:16:42PM -0400, Simon Law wrote:
> It's more like NT, but it matters not.  You can still use LILO to boot, if
> you're more comfortable with that.  Otherwise, do that NT bootloader thing,
> but that requires you to copy over the bootsector to your NT drive everytime
> you upgrade your kernel.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nate Duehr [mailto:nate@telluride.natetech.com]On Behalf Of Nate
> Duehr
> Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 2:29 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Dual-Boot Win2K & Debian
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> An unfortunate requirement for a particular piece of software from my
> workplace and the desire to play a few games is forcing me to put Win2K
> on my desktop machine here at home, which used to be a "Windows Free
> Zone"...
> 
> The question I have is, how to properly dual-boot Win2K and Linux?  Does
> 2K act more like 95/98 which is easy to dual-boot from LILO, or is it
> more like NT in which you edited the boot.ini file and could boot Linux
> from the NT bootloader easier than messing with LILO?
> 
> Anyone doing this?  I did a quick Google search and didn't find much of
> value on the topic... yet.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --
> Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com>
> 
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