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In article <391A6E55.22C5A627@dunvegan1.demon.co.uk>, "Paul Richards
(Pauldoo)" <pauldoo@dunvegan1.demon.co.uk> writes
>Hi,
>I need to have windows installed for a part time job I may get, and last
>night I attempted to install W2K.
>
>Here's the partition info:
>hda:
> hda1: 8Gb linux (ends on cyl 1023)
> hda2: 2Gb windows (starts on cyl 1024)
> freespace: ~5Gb
>
>I booted off the W2k CD and installed windows fine onto hda2..  It
>booted itself find and all was lovely and happy..  I then set the active
>partition back to hda1 with MS fdisk and linux booted fine..  Lovely...

Haven't tried this with linux, but if you've got the above to work
(seperately) then you should be able to get this to work using Nt's boot
loader boot.ini & copying the first sector of the disk to a file using
debug, maybe boot off a floppy with debug on, with hda1 set to active,
then save the file to floppy? Then you should simply be able to set the
other disk back to active, copy the file back to the root of this disk
then make another entry into boot.ini like:
C:\debug.fil="Boots Linux"

More information on using debug that way in "I have Windows 98 installed
on C: with FAT32, how do I install NT?" in the NTFAQ, www.ntfaq.com (you
can download a copy in helpfile format, probably quite useful if you're
going to be using NT)

YMMV  
-- 
John Chapple