Re: Win2K/ linux dual-boot
Nelson PC wrote:
hey all.
/total/ newbie here.... never touched linux. i am looking to remedy
that by installing some flavour of linux/ unix on my Windows 2000 box.
There is lots of documentation out there about installations w/
98. Can't find anything about Win2K. Who has this set-up, and is there
anything special that a guy needs to know to pull it off? Cheerz.
Nah, nothing much special; pretty much the same for W2K or Win98 (if
you're using LILO as your boot loader).
Step one: make sure you've got some free partition space on the drive
(2GB will give you a nice one-user Linux setup; 1GB is adequate). When
W2K was installed, you can bet it took the entire drive for it's
partition, so you'll either have to use some partitioning tool such as
Partition Magic (or the free fips if the disk is FAT32 instead of NTFS),
or you'll have to backup W2K, repartition, restore W2K.
Step two: make sure W2K is installed prior to installing Linux; you can
go the other way, but this is easiest.
Step three: once you've made sure W2K still works on it's now-smaller
partition, install Linux (preferably Debian GNU/Linux as opposed to
Redhat, etc).
Step four: after Linux is installed, edit /etc/lilo.conf and comment out
the "image=linux.old" section, and uncomment the "other" section so it
looks something like:
other=/dev/hda1
label=W2K
# restricted
# alias=3
This is assuming that W2K is on the first partition of the first IDE drive.
That's pretty much the basics.
Kent
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