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On Thu, 31 Dec 1998 01:42:47 GMT, stephenreynolds@hotmail.com
 <stephenreynolds@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Dual booting Linux and NT
>
[...]

I've had good experience with getting ms windows and Linux to
co-exist.  At work I have a machine with NT in a 2 GByte partition and
Linux above that.  Someone else installed NT on the machine and I
installed Linux.  Following the advice in docs on the net, I use the
NT loader on that machine, with the LILO boot sector copied to a file
where NT can see and use it.  I don't remember the details of the disk
geometry.

At home, I've just bought a new machine.  I had the dealer install
win98 in a 1 GByte partition at the start of the hard disk (although
I'd prefer not to use ms windows, there are one or two apps which it
is handy to run; and having working software on the machine provided a
pre-delivery check).  When I got the machine home I split the rest of
the disk into a few partitions for Linux and installed SuSE 5.3 Linux
and LILO.  This works flawlessly, I've had no problems with LILO.  For
the record, here's what fdisk reports:

  Command (m for help): p

  Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1232 cylinders
  Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

     Device Boot   Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
  /dev/hda1   *        1      128  1028128+   b  Win95 FAT32
  /dev/hda2          129      148   160650   83  Linux native
  /dev/hda3          149      212   514080   83  Linux native
  /dev/hda4          213     1232  8193150    5  Extended
  /dev/hda5          213      850  5124703+  83  Linux native
  /dev/hda6          851     1232  3068383+  83  Linux native



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