Re: [SLE] SuSE, win-98 and win-2000 in the same machine?

Hi Thank You so much for this information! This will make my spouse happy as a puppy! (wow!). Jaska. Viestissä Perjantai 21. Joulukuuta 2001 22:41, Tim Prince kirjoitti:

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jaakko Tamminen" To: Cc: "SuSE mailing list" Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 11:12 AM Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE, win-98 and win-2000 in the same machine?

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Hi

This sound very promising!

Does anyone knows if win-2000 can be installed to an existing empty partition, that I would create with Linux?

Jaska.

Probably so. Boot from the Win2K installation CD (not one of the vendor-dependent recovery CD's). When you get to that point, don't "upgrade" (which would wipe out your W98) but do a "clean" installation. Identify the target partition, delete it, and hope that the 2K installer is able to reformat (NTFS preferable). Win2K will (presumably) install its boot loader on the W98 partition, and in MBR, thus wiping out LILO or grub if they are located there. You then use your linux boot floppy to get back to linux. Either move your LILO or grub to your /boot partition and copy it to W98 (dd if=/dev/ of=/windows/c/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1), or set up LILO or grub with the option to boot to the Windows boot partition (presumably the C: device).

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Viestissä Perjantai 21. Joulukuuta 2001 21:09, Jesse Marlin kirjoitti:

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Jaakko Tamminen writes:

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Hi

Has anyone done this before:

Laptop with pre-installed win-98.

We want to add SuSE 7.3 and win-2000, and be able to boot them

(LILO?)

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all from HD.

This depends on which OS. Win98 wants to be on the first partition, so installing it first is okay, and then linux. I recently installed WinXP and linux, and I actually installed linux first. WinXP now allows you to choose which partition to install to. I thinks Win2000 also

allows

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this, but don't quote me.

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Is this possible, and if it is, what is the installation sequence?

Jaska.