Re: Win2000/Linux LILO Question ?

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From: Simon Gornall
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:36

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Rob Neff wrote:
> 
> Simon Gornall wrote:
> 
> > Indeed, I'm curious too. I've always done it this way.
> >
> >  1) Install NT/Win2k
> >  2) Install Linux. Redhat will auto-detect the NT partition
> >     and add it to the Lilo menu...
> 
> I've always done it the other way (I have so many
> computers now that I don't do dual-boot systems anymore,
> but I have done dual boot systems using Win95 and NT4 ...
> Never bothered with win2k, because at that
> point, like I said, I had enough boxes that dual booting
> was just silly). I've had problems doing it your way,
> and my research dug up several web pages that indicate
> the best way is to use Microsoft's boot loader when using
> NT.

Like I said, I was just curious... It does (generally, see
later) work for me, but I'm interested in knowing better
ways to do it if it ever might not work.

Of course, after using words like 'always', I now have a
problem :-)

I've just bought 5 new computers, 4 of which need to dual
boot into win2k/linux. We partitioned the 40Gb disks into
2x20Gb partitions within the Win2k install procedure, and
installed Win2k into the 1st partition. So far, so good.

Redhat 7.1 highlights my '/' partition as invalid (red)
because it starts after cylinder 1024. Should this be
a concern, or should I just go ahead anyway. Before just
buying more disks for everyone, I'd like to see if we
could install linux into the 2nd 20G of disk space...

Would I do better by installing Linux into the 1st 20Gb,
then installing win2k into the 2nd 20Gb and using the 
Win2k bootloader ?

ATB,
	Simon.

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