Re: How to install NT over Linux & 95 (may be offtopic)

[Farrell Kenimer of Phoenix, Az USA]

I don't believe that you are completely correct in your suggestion
although it usually applies.  I found that I had to get Lilo source
code and read the docs therein.  I could not find the docs on my
distribution.  I had the mini-howto's and the man pages.
I may have found the docs under Source Codes on my CD and it may
have been in RPM form but the binary rpm did not seem to have the
docs included.  See my other message here about a possible web
page to check out on this issue.
Even the author of the OS/2-HOWTO asks for others to let him know
when they found more of the answer.
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Adoram Rogel wrote:

> I'm forwarding a reply that I sent 6 months ago for the same question.
> In general, I think, going thru the 3 mini-howtos that deal with the
> different combos of OSes, would have answered all your questions.
> That's why mini-howtos and howtos are written for.
> 
> HTH, Adoram
> 
> Adoram Rogel wrote:
> > 
> > ryo wrote:
> > >
> > > I am trying to install linux on a system with NT already installed on it ,
> > > I know that installing lilo may destroy the NT loader. here is the actual
> > > configuration of the 1st HD
> > >
> > > hda1 fat16 partition of 1Go this is the active partition
> > > hda2 ntf partition of 1Go
> > >
> > > I plan to shrink the fat16 partition and make a 100 Mo ext2 partition for
> > > the root partition. Then install the remaining filesystem on a second
> > > hardrive.
> > >
> > > Is it sensible ?
> > 
> > Yes, any combination is fine.
> > 
> > > How can I configure lilo in order not to destroy the NT loader? A
> > > temporarly solution could be to create a bootdisk (on another redhat
> > > system) but I don't know to make one.
> > 
> > The way I did it is as follows:
> > 
> > hda1 (500Mb, fat16, mounted in Linux under /dos) is for NT
> > hda2 (50Mb, ext2) is the root partition
> > hda3...6, extended partition and /usr swap and /home (includes /var and
> > /tmp)
> > 
> > LILO treats /dev/hda2 as the boot disk, and that's where it puts its boot
> > sector. This way it does not destroy the NT loader.
> > Every time I run lilo I also run the following line (a script, of course):
> > dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dos/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
> > 
> > Now all you have to do is add this to the NT loader.
> > Attached is my boot.ini (the one in C:\)
> > 
> > Just remember to set and set all the attributes of the boot.ini file before
> > and after you edit it.
> > 
> > Feel free to ask...
> > 
> > BTW, this is all documented in one of the Mini-Howto (I don't remember which
> > one, I read them all before starting this).
> > 
> > > -------------------------------------------------------
> > >  Ryo | Pierre Loubigniac
> > >  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >  http://ituser.it.bton.ac.uk/student/pl55/public_html/
> > >  http://pcpl55.it.bton.ac.uk/~pl55/ (sometime)
> > > -------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > HTH, Adoram
> >   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > My boot.ini file:
> > -----------------
> > [boot loader]
> > timeout=10
> > default=c:\bootsect.lnx
> > ; was multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
> > [operating systems]
> > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00"
> > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00 
>[VGA mode]" /basevideo /sos
> > c:\bootsect.622="MS-DOS 6.22"
> > c:\bootsect.lnx="Linux"
> > ------------------
> > My lilo.conf file:
> > ------------------
> > boot=/dev/hda2
> > map=/boot/map
> > install=/boot/boot.b
> > prompt
> > timeout=20
> > default=2.0.32-2-SMP
> > image=/boot/2.0.32-2
> >         label=2.0.32-2-SMP
> >         root=/dev/hda2
> >         initrd=/boot/initrd32
> >         append="mem=96M"
> >         read-only
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz
> >         label=linux
> >         root=/dev/hda2
> >         initrd=/boot/initrd
> >         append="mem=96M"
> >         read-only
> 
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