[techtalk] Other OSes on a Linux box

[Jack Hoffa]

just wait til you're trying to dual boot 2000 and linux...   fun fun fun


i was testing 2000,   it let me put my partition in the middle of the drive,  
when i decided to see what this all mighty Microsoft OS could do...     i put a
partition in front of the partition that 2000 was on...    it took a nose dive
so bad that the only thing that i could do to save it was to low level format
my brand new 20 gig drive 2 days after i bought it...   :(



On Tue, 04 Jan 2000, you wrote:
> I have a few words to add to the LILO/NT/LINUX thread.  I just finished
> configuring 4 DELL laptop workstations with both NT 4.0 and Redhat 6.1.
> The first one was a pain in the you-know-where.  The rest went as easy
> as could be.
> 
> Like Caitlyn said, NT thinks it's the only thing in the world, so it tries 
> to take over every piece of disk that it sees.  It also thinks it owns the 
> MBR so it overwrites whatever is there without making a backup first.  On 
> top of all, the NT installation program has a MAJOR bug!  It asks you to
> select the partition on which you want to install NT, but it ignores that
> and always looks at the first partion on the disk and if it's not labeled 
> as a FAT or NTFS it whines and whines and whines about it!
> 
> So...  What I found that works to put both OSs on the disk is:
> 
>  1- Install NT first, creating only the root partition for NT using the 
>     NT installation software.
> 
>  2- Reboot ('cause NT wants you to)
> 
>  3- Reboot again ('cause NT likes to do this)
> 
>  4- Reboot again and again and again ... ('cause NT thinks it's a lot 
>     of fun!)
> 
>  5- After you're done rebooting over and over (geez!) install
>     Linux.  Partition the rest of the disk using Linux's partitioning
>     tool.  When the Linux installation asks you where you want to put
>     LILO tell it to put it in the MBR.  LILO will then be configured
>     to start either your new installation of Linux or NT (labeled as
>     "dos" in the LILO menu).
> 
>  6- Like Courtney said, keep your prayers going all the time, especially
>     if you have to tinker some more with NT.
> 
> As far as MS drivers for different hardware go, this should not be a 
> problem.  Every hardware manufacturer I know provides Windows drivers 
> with their hardware.  You can also download them from their respective
> web sites if you don't have the original diskettes that are usually
> supplied with the new hardware.  It's drivers for Linux that you will
> have problems getting.
> 
> Good luck.
> Samantha
> 
> 
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