Re: Win2K/ linux dual-boot
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 04:12:48PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> 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).
just make sure that this is win2k fresh installation and not an upgrade from
winnt. the different is that winnt uses ntloader that must sit on the mbr.
if it is an update you can find documentation in the HOWTO's (linux + winnt
or something similar).
>
> 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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Good Luck
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Haim
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