-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In installing debian on my system, I want to dual boot but I am > not sure which to boot first, WinXp(there are some apps that I > still have to run on windows), or Debian and how should i > partition(where to install the OSs). > Does anyone have a guide on this? Here is an old bookmark, but you should find a lot of descriptions in the net or in debians mailinglist archive (think I've read something about this a few weeks ago). <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+Windows-HOWTO/index.html> > Also can Debian write to NTFS partitions? Yes, you _can_ write to an NTFS partition - I've tried it with Windows NT and an 2.4.x Kernel and result was that after a couple of weeks the NTFS partition became unreadable. Since when building a new kernel and selecting NTFS write support it is clearly marked as _experimental_ I used an extra partition for testing, so it didn't matter at all. So don't use it except for testing - if you must transfer files from linux to windows it is much better to use a FAT partition to do that. > And is there a utility to let the user choose which partition > will boot up? While installing woody the installer asks you how lilo (LInuxLOader) should be configured - here you can add all partitions you want to boot from, and after rebooting you get a menu where you an pick. But you can search the archives (at http://lists.debian.org) there were some discussions about this recently. Cheers, Jan - -- My GnuPG public key is available at [EMAIL PROTECTED] (autoresonder) pub 1024D/82201FC4 2003-11-15 Jan Kesten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Primary key fingerprint: 1C10 DC8A F67E 0C2A 781C 2882 BEF9 8290 8220 1FC4 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAH2QfvvmCkIIgH8QRAlKGAKC89KlA9RxAGYAfcTY42+BeLLiPfgCgwY5j 6NlPvTaDT0OHn1kabE/ted0= =x9oN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----