[ILUG] Dual Boot Systems

[Liam Bedford]

The easiest way to do it is:
Install NT to wherever you want it (preferably an NTFS partition),
(otherwise it whines about the FAT32 partition 98 is on, and how it can't
install its boot loader). Then install Win98 to wherever you want it.You
won't be able to boot NT at this stage unless you change the active
partition to the NT one (See Disk Administrator in NT, and fdisk in 98 for
changing active partitions.)

Then install linux, but only put the linux partition in the LILO conf. If
it's on the second drive,
LILO has to go in the MBR of the first drive. Then bot linux, edit lilo.conf
to add:
other=/dev/hda1
	label = winnt
	table =/dev/hda
other=/dev/hda2
	label = win98
	table = /dev/hda
default=<whichever you want>

HTH,
Regards
L.
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Liam Bedford			System Administrator
WBT Systems,			01-4170153
Block 2,
Harcourt Centre, Harcourt St.
http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~lbedford

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ilug-admin at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin at linux.ie]On Behalf Of
> Bernard Tyers
> Sent: 23 August 1999 09:38
> To: Alan Sobey
> Cc: dollar at csn.ul.ie; ilug at linux.ie
> Subject: Re: [ILUG] Dual Boot Systems
>
>
> On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Alan Sobey wrote:
>
> > No, install 98 first.  It's got no consideration for other OSes (except
> > DOS).  Otherwise it'll overwrite the NT/Linux Master Boot Record.
> > I'd then install NT and then Linux.
> > Check out the mini-HOWTO at
> > http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html
>
>
> So, let me get this, neither NT or 98 has any consideration for any other
> OS? Hmm, I'm stumped so. Unless you boot one of them off a floppy?
>
>
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