Use Partition Magic. You can re-size the windows partition (which doesn't
lose any data!), move it up a gig to leave room for Linux, and then use the
PM boot magic to boot into either Linux or Windows. Make both Windows and
Linux partitions primary. I'm not certain, but you may be able to boot to a
partition >1024 with PM Boot, and you could then put Linux at the end of
your Windows partition. At any rate, you can resize down the windows
partition with PM without losing any data.
-----Original Message-----
From: Hugo Rabson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 9:14 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Cooker] making dual-boot systems (lilo >1024 problem)
System:
Pentium II Celeron @ 433MHz
64Mb RAM
10Gb HDD
If I resize the DOS partition to 4Gb, the remaining 6Gb would be _plenty_
for Linux, of course, but I cannot make LILO boot the partition (it's past
block 1024). I have known of this limitation for the last year or so but it
didn't matter because I had my OSes on different hard disks. However, I have
customers asking for Linux & was wondering if there was an easy way to add
Linux to a currently Windows-only hard drive.
AFAIK, I could remove the old partition, install Linux as the first and then
Windows as the second partition, but that would of course mean losing the
old Windows partition.
Perhaps there is a boot loader which can overcome this problem?
TIA,
Hugo
