Re: dual booting?
On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 19:00, ab.boonstra wrote:
> Where would I go about info on installing Debian on my HD along side WindowsME?
> I have a Pentium3 766mh, 192Ram, 20GigHD. ( Not partitioned )
Now is the 20 gig hd going to be for both debian and ME? Cause if it is
all you need to do is partition it with say 10 gigs for windows and a
385 mb linux swap partition and the rest give to linux(ext2) as its root
partition. Then install windows. Make sure windows only takes the
first partition. After this install debian(I recomend doing a net
install of woody). When prompted to install the boot record by lilo
tell it to install it into the MBR. Then go back and edit
/etc/lilo.conf and add windows into it useing the chain loader. Also
extend the time out and rerun lilo. After this you should be able to
dual boot into either OS.
Now if the 20 gig is just for linux. Then you need to give windows the
primary master spot and put the new 20 gig into an open spot on your IDE
bus. Then do the swap partition and give ext2 for the rest. At this
point you should be able to follow the rest of my directions.
Here are some examples of what you need to add and change.
lilo.conf:
delay=200 #this is a 20 second delay
other=dev/hda1
label=WindowsME
fstab:
/dev/hda1 /win vfat defaults,user 0 0#this is to mount windows partition
hope this helps
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