Re: [PLUG] Question about dual booting install.

[JP Toto <viceclown@yahoo.com>]

I think alot of this sounds like more trouble than it's worth. Booting 
to the Win2k Pro cd *does* give you parition options. You can remove or 
create partitions for windows. Simply remove what's there, then create a 
windows partition of desired size. Format and install (it will do that 
by itself) windows. Afterword install redhat which will automagically 
configure your computer with partitions on the existing space and setup 
the dual boot environment on the master boot record of your disk.

Cheers, - JP

Tobias DiPasquale wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 08:42, Daniel G Roberts wrote:
>
> > I would install win2k first then use partition magic to repartition your drives.
> >
> > Then install linux into these new partitions..
>
>
> You might also try GNU Parted
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html) if you were going with
> the FAT32 filesystem. Parted is ineffective on NTFS partitions, however.
> FAT32 is not recommended (by anyone, as far as I can tell).
>  
> You could also create two Windows partitions during the Win2K install
> and just overwrite the second with Linux when the Windows install is
> finished. That works fine. Refer to the following document to get a
> working dual-boot loader once you have both operating systems installed:
>
> http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux NT-Loader.html
>
> HTH! :)

--
JP Toto
ViceClown@yahoo.com
jtoto@members.fsf.org

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