On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 06:30:55PM +0530, Sunil Pandey wrote: > This may not be the correct place to ask but since it is related > to debian installation, I would ask it anyway. Thing is debian allows a > way to install through existing dos. Now, my comp already has Win-2000 > and that would not let me boot into dos. can someone suggest a way to do > this.
Installing via DOS is useful if you have a DOS system to install from. As W2K is NT-derived, and not DOS derived, there is no underlying DOS OS for you to boot to. You'll have to provide your own. A better suggestion might be to try a boot floppy installation. This involves one or two floppies, plus a downloaded disk image, which you store someplace on your system. While you can have more partitions, I'd suggest three as a minimum for this method: 1: W2K 2: Linux root partition 3: other Linux partition ...initially, you'd install Linux into the root partition, while holding the install image on the third partition. As I said, more partitions may not hurt, and your decision should be driven by available space, physical drive(s) configuration, and anticipated use. A small(ish) boot partition, a Linux swap partition, and possible breakouts for /tmp, /var, /usr, /usr/local, and /home may be appropriate. However, the justifications fall well within the realm of religion. I'd suggest you take a look at several of the Linux HOWTOS, including those covering multiple-OS booting, large disks, and LILO. -- Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/