[plug] Dual Booting

[Jon Miller]

James,
I have Windows 2000 and Red Hat 7.3 on a single disk.  The disk is a 30GB drive and I have it partitioned equally.  What I did was setup the first partition with Windows 2000 and did the install.  once completed.  I did a install of RH7.3 using Disk Druid and selected the 2nd partition and did the install.  The boot is on (/dev/hda1) the first partition  starting a 1 and ending at 2167 for a total of 17406396 blocks and it's a HPFS/NTFS file system. Linux is on /dev/hda2 and my swap is on /dev/hda3.

Hope this helps.

Jon L. Miller, MCNE, CNS
Director/Sr Systems Consultant
MMT Networks Pty Ltd
http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure
 is trying to please everybody." -Bill Cosby



>>> James.Elliott at wn.com.au 4:07:59 PM 19/03/2003 >>>
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, but an ISP
Help Desk person told me yesterday I would have problems doing that because
each OS needs to start in the first 2-4 GB of the disk space.  He suggested
I would be much better off with two HDD's because then each OS would
automatically be in the first 4 B of its respective disk.

Is that correct?
I would appreciate any advice you can provide, before I proceed.

Kind regards,  James Elliott