...I am preparing to do a dual boot machine with my laptop. I have read before that you need to install windows first on the hard drive to get the partitions to work correctly. Then install linux on cylendar 1024 . Then configure LILO to boot with the option of picking the partition to use. I have a few questions... 1. Do you need to boot with a floppy when you do this, why would it just read the lilo booter, unless you put it on the MBR sector of the hard drive. 2. Is there a place I can go to get reallly good directions for this, or do you all know a place or how to do this? Thanks, Mike
I did this as a brand newbie.... basically i had a machine with win2k... i deleted a logical partition in Win2k and then made it smaller so that Linux would have "free space" - (I think SuSE will automatically resize if youre running win98 or 95) - the install program then wrote LiLO to a floppy - this is a smart way to go since windows doesnt like anything messing with the MBR on the harddrive - if you dont have the floppy in , Win2K just boots automatically. easy peezie Chuck At 2/11/2002 01:55 PM, Mike Garabedian wrote:
...I am preparing to do a dual boot machine with my laptop. I have read before that you need to install windows first on the hard drive to get the partitions to work correctly. Then install linux on cylendar 1024 . Then configure LILO to boot with the option of picking the partition to use.
I have a few questions...
1. Do you need to boot with a floppy when you do this, why would it just read the lilo booter, unless you put it on the MBR sector of the hard drive.
2. Is there a place I can go to get reallly good directions for this, or do you all know a place or how to do this?
Thanks, Mike
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All the recent installs of Linux give you the option to dual boot from the hard drive. You should be able to do this with any version of Windows, AFAIK, altho you should be able to do it the other way from Win2K. When the program asks if you want to dual boot, just say Yes, and let it fix things. But you're right in one respect: Windows has to be there first. And it really doesn't matter any more what the starting turn of the Linux partition is, thank Heaven! So, to summarize, no, you don't have to boot Linux off a floppy. You can have a nice, friendly penguin ask you to select the OS you want to use. --doug At 14:01 02/11/2002 -0500, Chuck T wrote:
I did this as a brand newbie.... basically i had a machine with win2k... i deleted a logical partition in Win2k and then made it smaller so that Linux would have "free space" - (I think SuSE will automatically resize if youre running win98 or 95) - the install program then wrote LiLO to a floppy - this is a smart way to go since windows doesnt like anything messing with the MBR on the harddrive - if you dont have the floppy in , Win2K just boots automatically.
easy peezie
Chuck
At 2/11/2002 01:55 PM, Mike Garabedian wrote:
...I am preparing to do a dual boot machine with my laptop. I have read before that you need to install windows first on the hard drive to get the partitions to work correctly. Then install linux on cylendar 1024 . Then configure LILO to boot with the option of picking the partition to use.
I have a few questions...
1. Do you need to boot with a floppy when you do this, why would it just read the lilo booter, unless you put it on the MBR sector of the hard drive.
2. Is there a place I can go to get reallly good directions for this, or do you all know a place or how to do this?
Thanks, Mike
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On Monday 11 February 2002 10:55, Mike Garabedian wrote:
...I am preparing to do a dual boot machine with my laptop. I have read before that you need to install windows first on the hard drive to get the partitions to work correctly. Win9x/ME want to boot from the first partition. I doubt that's necessary with current Windows. Then install linux on cylendar 1024 . Some versions of LILO require installation on a /boot partition within the first 1024 cylinders (or on MBR). That shouldn't be necessary with current versions. Then configure LILO to boot with the option of picking the partition to use. Unless you wish to keep LILO as is, and install a copy for Win2K/XP to use.
I have a few questions...
1. Do you need to boot with a floppy when you do this, why would it just read the lilo booter, unless you put it on the MBR sector of the hard drive. If you install LILO on /boot, with some distros, including redhat, you must make a floppy to get into linux the first time. With SuSE, there is an equivalent option on the setup CD. Don't know if that's what you're getting at.
2. Is there a place I can go to get reallly good directions for this, or do you all know a place or how to do this? There are so many different ways preferred by different people, and some write-ups which don't tell how to figure out the easiest way for you, that I'd hesitate even to refer you to my own, even if you choose to be more informative about what you have in mind. Why not look in the discussion archives and see if they help you decide which way to go?
Thanks, Mike
I have been using a dual boot system all along, and it works fine with most variations of Windows.
I have read before that you need to install windows first
Assuming you mean the order of install, and NOT the physical location on your drive, it is not absolutely necessary to install Windows first and then Linux.... just simpler.... especially if you are new to Linux and don't want to mess about setting up LILO manually and re-writing your MBR. The SuSE install will identify the fact you already have another OS installed and usually automatically configs LILO correctly for you.
1. Do you need to boot with a floppy when you do this, why would it just read the lilo booter, unless you put it on the MBR sector of the hard drive.
You can boot from floppy if you want to... or you can write LILO to the MBR. Each method has it's good an bad points. Windows will generally work fine with LILO written to the MBR - assuming you configure LILO correctly. Linux also boots fine if you choose to write LILO to a floppy. I used the 'LILO on a floppy' method for 2 years before I got around to transfering it to the MBR.
2. Is there a place I can go to get reallly good directions for this, or do you all know a place or how to do this?
A Google search on "windows linux howto dual boot" gives you some resources to read about doing the dual boot thing. I can also give you a few tips, suggestions, and pointers if you let me know: - what Windows version you are installing - what SuSE version you are installing - if you are doing a fresh install or shrinking an existing Win install - how much drive space you have Clayton
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