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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