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