[plug] Dual Booting

[Bill Kenworthy]

Current wisdom seems to be install windoze first, and then linux second
in the end partition.  Grub and newer lilo dont have the limitations of
having to be below cyl 1024 which is why two HDD installs are/were so
popular.  For an existing windoze install, use partition magic to shove
windoze into a small corner of the HDD, and slot linux in after.

BillK

On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 18:15, Jon Miller wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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> 
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Bill Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>