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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