Re: [PLUG] Question about dual booting install.

[sean finney <seanius@seanius.net>]

hi donald,

linux is definitely the second thing to install, as it's a little more
aware and considerate of other pre-existing OS's on the machine.  if
you can, i'd pre-emptively partition in like your friend suggested (do
it from a root shell on the install cd, or better yet, get yourself a
knoppix CD so you can play frozen bubble in between!).  basically, make
the first partition your big ntfs partition[1], allocate it, and leave
the rest blank and unallocated.  install 2k, which will probably go
along with the install not complaining about how the C:\ is actually
smaller than the hard drive.  after that's installed, back into the rh
installer, finish the job, and don't forget to put an entry into lilo.conf
(or grub.conf) for your MS OS...

if you'd like to see my 2k/debian machine's partition layout or fstab,
just let me know.


	sean


[1] if you can boot past the 8192 cylinder limit, which most modern
    bioses can these days.

On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 08:34:37AM -0400, Donald Shierk wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all.
> 
> I am trying to do a dual install with Win 2000 Pro, and RedHat 8. Would 
> anyone
> mind giving me any pointers or tips regarding the process to do this? When I
> try installing Windows first, it seems there is no option to partition the
> hard drive for the later Linux install. A friend of mine suggested that I 
> might
> use the RedHat disks first to partition, then reboot, install windows, then
> go back to complete the RedHat install later. Is this feasible? I can't seem
> to get the Linux partitions to "take" in this manner, no matter how late I
> terminate the initial install.
> 
> Thanks very much for any help.
> 
> Don
> 
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