[plug] Dual Booting

[Tim Bowden]

James Elliott wrote:

>I was going to partition my 20 GB hard disk into two 10 GB partitions and
>install Windows in one partition and Debian Linux in the other, 
>  
>
My solution to this problem has always been to start my linux install 
first (in my case rh) and create the desired partitions with fdisk- an 
ext2/3 about 70-80 mb for /boot (does debian use this?), then dos 10gb, 
then ext2/3 & swap as desired.  Crash out of linux install _after_  new 
partition table has been written to disk.  Install Windows.  Install Linux.

Note:  man fdisk as some warning about doing this but it has always 
worked for me.  ymmv.

Good Luck,
Tim Bowden