Almost true, What I would do if I had a clean disk is start the linux install
just enough get a shell by doing alt F2 - F6 until I found a console that would
allow me to type
fdisk /dev/hda
I would make a 16meg linux partition at the front of the disk. and then I would
reboot and use Windoze fdisk to make my WinDOS partition as big as I wanted it
(Fat32 doesn't care about the 1024 cylinder boundary) Set up windoze and then
set up Linux. When it asked me where to put lilo I would then put it in
/dev/hda1.
NOT the Master Boot Record. You want to set the 16meg linux partition to mount
at /boot.
I say almost true because lilo wants to be within that first 1024 cylinders.
"Pittman, Merle" wrote:
> As long as you install windows first (on the first partition of your
> harddrive) and then install Linux you should have no problems.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ron Burns [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 10:11 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [newbie] Dual boot with Windows 2000
> >
> > How can this be done? I have tried Linux as the first installed OS and
> > then tried Win 2k
> > and then I tried the reverse. I cannot get Lilo to function (install).
> > This was not a problem
> > with '98 and worked well. Any help would be appreciated. BTW...my drive is
> > formated
> > fat 32 at this point. Previously, it was fat32 and I allowed Mandrake to
> > do the rest.
> >
> > Thanks Ron
