Re: Linux/NT dual booting
Martin Fields wrote: For a dual boot - why not go to a computer store and buy one of those things where you can swap hard drives like disks? They are around 30$, then for This is a physical solution. In computer world, I think it's not that quite cool. linux get a cheap 3 gig. you could run the same, but I would reccomend more space for nt. But not so much more; NT needs the BIOS to get the size of the harddisks. If you go beyond aprox. 8.7G (1024 cyls.), then the extra space wouldn't be useful (or you'd need to partition the disks, and get some headaches due to the fact that LILO has problems in accessing that size too). Oki
Re: Linux/NT dual booting
Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i want to boot both NT and Linux directly from the hard disk (dual boot).. is this even possible with an x86 machine? i want the x86 machine to somewhat match my Alpha, but i've never been successful in getting this to work.. NT always f*%@(^ up my boot sector.. could someone help me out with how to make this work? DOS boot partition on hda1 Linux on hda2 NT on hdb1 Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED] CS - Western Washington University -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null dave - i have slink + NT workstation 4.0 on the same machine both booting from the hard drive. i followed the instructions + downloaded appropriate software (required only for NT part) from http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Multiboot-with-LILO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html and everything worked smoothly peter
Re: Linux/NT dual booting
For a dual boot - why not go to a computer store and buy one of those things where you can swap hard drives like disks? They are around 30$, then for linux get a cheap 3 gig. you could run the same, but I would reccomend more space for nt. martin Original Message Follows From: Peter Mickle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Linux/NT dual booting Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 17:40:25 -0400 Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i want to boot both NT and Linux directly from the hard disk (dual boot).. is this even possible with an x86 machine? i want the x86 machine to somewhat match my Alpha, but i've never been successful in getting this to work.. NT always f*%@(^ up my boot sector.. could someone help me out with how to make this work? DOS boot partition on hda1 Linux on hda2 NT on hdb1 Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED] CS - Western Washington University -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null dave - i have slink + NT workstation 4.0 on the same machine both booting from the hard drive. i followed the instructions + downloaded appropriate software (required only for NT part) from http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Multiboot-with-LILO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html and everything worked smoothly peter -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Linux/NT dual booting
i want to boot both NT and Linux directly from the hard disk (dual boot).. is this even possible with an x86 machine? i want the x86 machine to somewhat match my Alpha, but i've never been successful in getting this to work.. NT always f*%@(^ up my boot sector.. could someone help me out with how to make this work? DOS boot partition on hda1 Linux on hda2 NT on hdb1 Dave Wiard [EMAIL PROTECTED] CS - Western Washington University
Re: Linux/NT dual booting
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Dave Wiard wrote: i want to boot both NT and Linux directly from the hard disk (dual boot).. is this even possible with an x86 machine? i want the x86 machine to somewhat match my Alpha, but i've never been successful in getting this to work.. NT There's a Linux HOWTO on this topic. I works great. -- Jean Pierre
