Hi, Try looking at this site www.tldg.org and navigate through the HOW To's, Catergorised Index and select boot loaders and booting the OS.
This helped a collegue of mine install linux onto a system running XP and allowed him during booy up to select which OS he needed to run. I hope this helps. Darren >-- Original Message -- >Subject: Partition Magic >From: James Pifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: redhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: 30 Sep 2002 19:19:12 -0400 > > >I have a RH72 system where the OS is installed on a 40gig drive and >there's a second 100gig drive setup as disk2.I would like to install >Windows 2000 on a partition to use for games. > >I created a partition on the end of the 100gig drive to use for win2k, >but I couldn't install it because Windoze needs to be able to write to >the first partition. > >I then figured I would create room at the beginning of the drive, but >Partition Magic 7 will not let me resize the Linux ext2 partitions. It >will let me resize/move the one on the 100gig drive, but not the one the >OS is on. I figured I would have to reinstall grub, maybe even do a >system upgrade to make it work again after installing windoze, but I >can't even get that far. > >Is there any way for me to get Windoze installed without completely >wiping out the system and starting over? I would really hate to do that. >I have a ton of stuff on this system already. It was a pain to get X to >work on this system because of the video chipset and motherboard. > >I guess my other option is to do a huge copy of everything to a spot on >the 100 gig drive, repatition and install Windoze, then install Linux, >mounting the 100 gig drive again as disk2(obviously without formatting), >then try to recover all of my stuff again. Any reason this wouldn't >work? > >Any other suggestions? >Thanks, >James >(ps - sorry for the length of this post) > > > > > >-- >redhat-list mailing list >unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
