RE: [newbie] dual boot M8.2 and XP suggestion
I have XP on NTFS on my laptop along with linux 8.2, I have loaded all the updates for XP, I have defragged and use it every day in either XP or 8.2 guise, and have not had a problem.. so maybe it only happens on specific hardware.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anand Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 1:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] dual boot M8.2 and XP suggestion Hi, I may be wrong about this... but I beleive that it depends on whether the XP is on NTFS or not. My friend installed Linux with XP on fat32 without any special precautions (like not installing lilo on MBR) and he didn't have any problems. I did the same thing with XP on NTFS and ended up loosing my windows. I then had to load lilo from XP bootloader (After reinstalling XP ofcourse). Please correct me if I am wrong. Anand On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Bryan Tyson wrote: On Tuesday 30 July 2002 09:06 am, Scott wrote: I'm still confused on the same point: Some people talk about copying the boot record (the first 512 bytes from the linux partition) and copying it to the windows partition. Other people seem to be saying that linux will sort out the booting and never mention copying the boot record or editing bootlaoder config files. Which is right? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dual boot M8.2 and XP suggestion
Hi, I may be wrong about this... but I beleive that it depends on whether the XP is on NTFS or not. My friend installed Linux with XP on fat32 without any special precautions (like not installing lilo on MBR) and he didn't have any problems. I did the same thing with XP on NTFS and ended up loosing my windows. I then had to load lilo from XP bootloader (After reinstalling XP ofcourse). Please correct me if I am wrong. Anand On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Bryan Tyson wrote: On Tuesday 30 July 2002 09:06 am, Scott wrote: I'm still confused on the same point: Some people talk about copying the boot record (the first 512 bytes from the linux partition) and copying it to the windows partition. Other people seem to be saying that linux will sort out the booting and never mention copying the boot record or editing bootlaoder config files. Which is right? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] dual boot M8.2 and XP suggestion
On Wednesday 31 July 2002 13:06, Anand wrote: I may be wrong about this... but I beleive that it depends on whether the XP is on NTFS or not. My friend installed Linux with XP on fat32 without any special precautions (like not installing lilo on MBR) and he didn't have any problems. I did the same thing with XP on NTFS and ended up loosing my windows. Well, you might be right, I don't know, simply because I have not tried it. I can tell you I have done two machines dual booting XP with NTFS and Linux (1 machine Mandrake, 1 machine SuSE), and it works fine if you install XP first, keep your Linux on hdb, and put lilo in the mbr. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
