--- Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > eric brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I bought a used 10G hardrive and installed it in > my > > computer has hda (primary IDE master) and I > installed > > Linux on that drive. My original windows install > is > > now primary IDE slave. I modified LILO so I can > load > > XP or Linux. (see below) > > > A full disk just for booting? I'm using the "xfdisk" > bootloader to > choose between Linux and Windows. xfdisk has the > advatage that it can't > restore its MBR after overwritten by any Windows or > Debian/sarge > installation. IMO the lilo bootblock belongs always > into the linux > partition and never into the MBR. xfdisk has also a > drawback, it's > written in pascal and not actively supported.
I didn't mention that my original XP install drive was almost full. Getting a second drive is also cheaper than getting Partition Magic. Does xfdisk (or some other program) can resize partition without data loss? (The thing is that I was also a bit paranoid about protecting my data on my original disk with one partition...) > > Drawback: Since windows is partitionned in NTFS I > can > > only read my windows file from the Linux side. > > Windows doesn't even see the linux side. > > > Get fs2explorer for windows. Thanks for the tip! > > O. Wyss > > -- > See "http://wxguide.sourceforge.net/" for ideas how > to design your app. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]