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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:43:13 -0700
The trouble is that I did install Windows first, Linux second allowing
LILO to write over the boot sector on the windows drive. But the funny
thing about
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Subject: RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:43:13 -0700
The trouble is that I did install Windows first, Linux second allowing
LILO to write over the boot sector on the windows drive. But the funny
thing about the problem is that not even a Windows 2000 Pro
Make sure you install Mandrake second Windows will force itself to be the
only bootable partition otherwise
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From: Ammon Cooke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 6:53 PM
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Subject: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble
I have 2 hard
Hi.
I want to setup a Dual Boot with Win2k and Mandrake 7.2. Is there any
documentation that will walk me through each step? I have very little
experience with Linux so I have no idea how to go about doing this.
Thanks,
Raja
Hi, I recently installed first the win2k in a ntfs file system,
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From: Emilio Correa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Win 2000 / Mandrake 7.2
Hi.
I want to setup a Dual Boot with Win2k and Mandrake 7.2. Is there any
documentation that will walk me
: "Michael" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual boot: Mandrake and NT question??
I actually installed Boot Magic along with Partition Magic and I lost
access to my D Drive (NTFS), on the install. I called PQ and they
** Reply to message from "Adam Willcox" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 23 Feb
2001 09:35:30 -0500
I've fallen behind in reading all these e-mails, so bear with me if I repeat
something.There are two aspects of using NTFS and other partitions systems:
boot and read.
To connect to an NTFS
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Adam Willcox
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 9:36 AM
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual boot: Mandrake and NT question??
This is what I'm currently trying to get running
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From: "Michael" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual boot: Mandrake and NT question??
I actually installed Boot Magic along with Partition Magic and I
lost access to my D Drive (NTFS), on the install. I
Thanks so much, everyone, for all your help and input. Thanks Eryl for
the advice and tutorial link. It was a little different than the one I
had and easier to understand. I'm leaving it on this response in case
someone missed it before.
http://morse.colorado.edu/itplab/ipv6/dualboot.html
If you've installed boot magic and are booting the ntloader from it, it
will be a piece of cake. Don't use DiskDrak to format your partitions
though, use the existing formatted partitions you made with partition
magic and just assign them / and /home and /swap, etc. and don't put
lilo in the
I actually installed Boot Magic along with Partition Magic and I lost
access to my D Drive (NTFS), on the install. I called PQ and they
helped me straighten it out. They said not to install Boot Magic until
the Linux install was completed. This is one of the reasons I asked if
there were any
Michael wrote:
I actually installed Boot Magic along with Partition Magic and I lost
access to my D Drive (NTFS), on the install. I called PQ and they
helped me straighten it out. They said not to install Boot Magic until
the Linux install was completed. This is one of the reasons I
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Alan Shoemaker
Sent: 17 January 2001 18:55
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual Boot
AL wrote:
Installed LM 7.2 on secondary master hard drive. When
booting up the only available os to boot is linux. Windows
2000 (installed in primary
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual Boot
AL wrote:
Installed LM 7.2 on secondary master hard drive. When
booting up the only available os to boot is linux. Windows
2000 (installed in primary master hard drive) is NOT
available in the boot menu.
List members previously
Boot with you Linux boot disk. That will get you into 7.2. Then, as root
open the console. Goto /boot/grub and type ./install.sh
You may have to change the permissions too. If that is the case, just use
chmod to modify the permissions.
This will restore the boot loader. Problem solved!
Oh, and
AL wrote:
Installed LM 7.2 on secondary master hard drive. When
booting up the only available os to boot is linux. Windows
2000 (installed in primary master hard drive) is NOT
available in the boot menu.
List members previously suggested that LM 7.2 will
automatically detect Win2000.
How
Thank-you everyone for the suggestions. I won't get a chance to try them
out until later this week. So, the concensus is that the Linux Partition is
always installed so that it is bootable so that I just need to point Lilo
(or another boot manager) to /dev/hdb5 and Mandrake will boot? I was
correct
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On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 Mr Monster had this to say!
Hi
I
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From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 6:25 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual Boot
correct
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From: Doug McGarrett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, 04 December, 2000 08:47
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Abraham Pinzur
Subject: RE: [newbie] Dual Boot
At 12:24 AM 12/04/2000 -0600, Abraham Pinzur wrote:
If you're willing to spend
At 12:24 AM 12/04/2000 -0600, Abraham Pinzur wrote:
If you're willing to spend $30, you can download Partition Commander
URL?
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And attached a .vcf file. Please turn off your .vcf generator.
take a look at /etc/lilo.conf
make sure it points to the right partitions and everything is right as far
as you can tell. Should look like:
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.x-xx
label=linux
root=/dev/hdax
read-only
other=/dev/hdax
label=win
On Sunday 03 December 2000 23:35, you wrote:
I have a dual boot computer with W2K and Mandrake 7.2 on it. The Windows
boots from drive C: and the Mandrake is on /dev/hdb5 . When it was
installing I was asked which drive the Linux was booting from and I said
/dev/hdb5. I then made a backup
If you're willing to spend $30, you can download Partition Commander
from the web, and it's got a really nice partitioning/resizing utility
as well as a bootloader. It's gotten me out of a lot of trouble.
erylon hines wrote:
On Sunday 03 December 2000 23:35, you wrote:
I have a dual boot
: Sunday, 03 December, 2000 23:12
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual Boot
If you're willing to spend $30, you can download Partition Commander
from the web, and it's got a really nice partitioning/resizing utility
as well as a bootloader. It's gotten me out of a lot of trouble
add this lines to your lilo:
other=/dev/hdxx
label=w2k
table=/dev/hdx
map-drive = 0x80
to = 0x81
map-drive = 0x81
to = 0x80
note that you need to put the right xx in other and table.
this work for me.
good luck.
erylon hines wrote:
On Sunday 03 December 2000 23:35, you wrote:
I have a
is because I have a CD burner which needs scsi emulation
So make the change to /etc/lilo.conf and as root run 'lilo'.
Doug H.
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From:Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:Tue, 14 Nov 2000 16:24:34 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual bo
I have ME on one of the computers here and it sucks something fierce.
I
had in mind three reasons for using WinME:
1. The new mpg encoding
2. Driver updates so I wouldn't have to search around for them
3. The registry roll back feature.
It just completely fails on 3 -- I get a damn
ow, I know some people who use ME and think that it works just fine. Maybe
your friend is having some configuration problems...Just a guess.
-Original Message-
From: Doug McGarrett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 12:13 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: R
: [newbie] Dual-boot question
No, you DO NOT want to install ME on anything. It is
far inferior to W98 by everybody who has tried it, and
it crashes frequently. Don't just take my word for it,
check Consumer Reports and the info at ZDnet or whatever
the correct name is. One of my compadres
the correct name is. One of my compadres at work has
decided to put ME on his machine. He said it crashed a
lot. He was unable to even boot the machine today! I
Probably while doing its "maintenance" to keep it from crashing :-)
can't believe that MS was so stupid as to create this
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question
the correct name is. One of my compadres at work has
decided to put ME on his machine. He said it crashed a
lot. He was unable to even boot the machine today! I
Probably while doing its "maintenance" to keep it from crashing :-)
can
yes you can, either leave linux W/ LILO or GRUB as a
boot loader on the first hard drive and be sure to ad
WinME to your boot loader and tell it where to find
Windows.or I have seen some people just switch the
hard drive that boots whenever they want to run
Windowsnot very practical but
"Kelly, Christopher" wrote:
Greetings on this rainy Tuesday in New Jersey,
Quick question. I am running 7.1 on a 4gig hard drive. I would like to add
another hard drive and install Windows ME on the other one. Can I dual-boot
between two hard drives?? If so, has this created any problems?
: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 8:25 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual-boot question
yes you can, either leave linux W/ LILO or GRUB as a
boot loader on the first hard drive and be sure to ad
WinME to your boot loader and tell it where to find
Windows.or I have seen some people
Quick question. I am running 7.1 on a 4gig hard drive. I would like to
add
another hard drive and install Windows ME on the other one. Can I
dual-boot
between two hard drives?? If so, has this created any problems?
You CAN dual-boot between two different hard drives. However, Windoze
expects
Chris , If you know how to install second hard drive and load operating
system you should have no problem. You will need to use some kind of boot
management (lilo perhaps?) and all should be well
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From: Kelly, Christopher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'Newbie' [EMAIL
John Rye escribió:
In simple terms - yes. But the windows installation for some
strange archaiac and magical reason closely related to monotonic
gatesism
dictates that windows _MUST_ be on the first hard disk.
Ejem... only windows' boot has to be in the first hard disk; i've windows98
Joan Tur wrote:
John Rye escribió:
In simple terms - yes. But the windows installation for some
strange archaiac and magical reason closely related to monotonic
gatesism
dictates that windows _MUST_ be on the first hard disk.
Ejem... only windows' boot has to be in the first
Kelly,
You can do what you've mentioned and you shouldn't have any trouble at all
in doing so. When I first started using Linux that's very much the way I
did it. I had Windows in one drive and Linux on another. Everything booted
just fine and both OS's were just happy as clams.
--
Mark
At 07:55 AM 9/19/00 -0400, Chris Kelly wrote:
Greetings on this rainy Tuesday in New Jersey,
Quick question. I am running 7.1 on a 4gig hard drive. I would like to add
another hard drive and install Windows ME on the other one. Can I dual-boot
between two hard drives?? If so, has this created
you can but i would pull the other hard drive out and use the new one as a
primary to install windows then after your done swap it out and put it in as
the secondary, then you just have to add the commands in your boot loader to
the second os, although im not exactly sure what the system
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
First: Please use plain old ascii mail. Thanks
I boot just fine w/ lilo (well, most of the time) with win2k. Most likely what
you need to do is try setting the linear mode on (I had to). Then run
/sbin/lilo again.
That SHOULD rewrite the boot sector of /dev/hda.
Ty C. Mixon
F.T.C.
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
e somewhat obsolete
Steve Flynn
IBM MVS Operations Analyst
Paul Derbyshire [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/02/2000 22:42:54
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cc:(bcc: Steve Flynn/UK/Contr/IBM)
Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual Boot with LiLo and other stuff
At 07:48 PM 2/1
Hi All,
I just got back from a weekend away so this is the first time I've had
to read these responses. I have also saved the thread on the missing
ram (I am having that problem too).
Anyway, I did do a custom install and installed the entire shootin
match. But I am at a loss as to how to work
John Aldrich wrote:
On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Steve Tarara wrote:
Hi All,
I am planning to run a dual boot system W98, and Linux. I have a SCSI HD
and an IDE HD. The controller card for the SCSI drive is not supported,
bummer, so I have Linux installed on my IDE drive. All peripherals
Thanks to all of your help, I am up and running w/sound. Now to find the
Ultra ATA66 driver for my SIIG card and drive.
Thanks again,
Steve
Steve Tarara wrote:
Hi All,
I am planning to run a dual boot system W98, and Linux. I have a SCSI HD
and an IDE HD. The controller card for the SCSI
On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Steve Tarara wrote:
Hi All,
I am planning to run a dual boot system W98, and Linux. I have a SCSI HD
and an IDE HD. The controller card for the SCSI drive is not supported,
bummer, so I have Linux installed on my IDE drive. All peripherals
except for the sound card work
Hi, Steve,
1. All you have to do about sound card is just make sure that your sound
card is supported by Linux (you can check it out at Hardware HOWTO at
http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO and if it
supported, run
the command :
# sndconfig
and after that, you just
At 08:55 PM 1/1/00 -0500, you wrote:
Hi All,
I am planning to run a dual boot system W98, and Linux. I have a SCSI HD
and an IDE HD. The controller card for the SCSI drive is not supported,
bummer, so I have Linux installed on my IDE drive. All peripherals
except for the sound card work properly,
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.. All peripherals except for the sound card work properly, I have a Creative Labs
sound
card. The installation program never gave me the option to set it up.
Does this mean it is not supported? If it should be supported how can I
set it up after
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Seth Gibson wrote:
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, you wrote:
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What are the risks in Dual Booting?
One of the operating systems being from Redmond
That's A Roast!!
Couldn't find my lighter what can I say I was
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, you wrote:
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What are the risks in Dual Booting?
One of the operating systems being from Redmond
That's A Roast!!
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www.mp3.com/PSM0x2710
members.tripod.com/cybernetic_thunder (There's Actually STUFF
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What are the risks in Dual Booting?
Well, not much. If you plan to use lilo to boot other operating systems,
install lilo on MBR. If you have other utilities such as System
Commander install lilo on the Linux partition. Just make sure you have
enough space for each OS.
Seung-woo Nam wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What are the risks in Dual Booting?
Well, not much. If you plan to use lilo to boot other operating systems,
install lilo on MBR. If you have other utilities such as System
Commander install lilo on the Linux partition. Just make sure you
No, I expect you're right. After all I am a living example as to why this
would not be good for them!
Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] dual
I will tell you how I did the deed, if this will help.
My system was partitioned into four partitions for Windoze.
I used Partition Magic to resize these to provide room on the disk for
Linux.
I then made room before the secondary partition for the main (root) Linux
partition. I also created
think?
Thanks again,
Tony Zoccolillo
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From: Ernie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] dual boot setup
I did not want to mess around with Linux for DOS or anything like that, as
I
wanted my Linux
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote:
John,
Thanks for the help. What does the fdisk/mbr (I working from memory
here...rec'd that email home and now at work) do?
Gives you a "clean" master boot record, which is where LILO
resides.
What I did was, using fdisk, clear all Linux
partitions but
, 1999 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] dual boot setup
On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, you wrote:
HUH???What boot menu??? I just use LILO here. Here's my
lilo.conf for a dual-boot system (RedHat/Win98 here at
work.)
begin lilo.conf=
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
"Ernie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I must confess however, that I do like my IE5 and the OutLook Express
e-mail
reader in Windoze better than the Netscape Communicator provided with
Linux.
This is a personal preference, and in no way should be construed as any
kind
of an endorsement for the
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] dual boot setup
Ok...here's what worked best for me... wipe the drive
(completely) and then partition out what you want for
Windows. Install Windows. Next, boot to the floppy boot
disk
On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, you wrote:
So...your saying to not use the lnx4win.exe and boot to the Mandrake CDROM
and create the partition from there... I'll give it a try tonight. I may
have to start from scratch as any corruption of the partition from using
lnx4win can't be fixed, as Mandrake
the first partion, it
worked just fine. You may want to revisit your install procedures and look
at that, too.
-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 6:10 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Win98/Linux
On Thu, 0
drive. Once I moved the install to the first partion, it
worked just fine. You may want to revisit your install procedures and look
at that, too.
-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 6:10 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subjec
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, you wrote:
John:
I got it working... without a manual (too lazy to print it I guess)
I got it figured out reading some of the stuff on the Newbie list. I
figured out that I could configure the boot and everything I needed with
linuxconf. However, the problem I
John:
You mean get a menu at boot? Well, sorta. I think if you
hit "tab" it'll bring up the various things you have
configured in your lilo.conf.
Ya.. that is what I was looking for ... I know about the TAB to bring up
the options... but I was thinking that there was a message file you
On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, you wrote:
Another problem I am having is when I try to run KDE ( and I might be
doing it wrong to begin with...) is that when I type kde from the prompt
it trys to load and gives me "Xserver could not load" and dumps me back
to the prompt.
You're going about it all
On 7 Oct, Jesse Royall wrote:
I have been trying to install Linux on my system. Tried several
different things and I either get Win98 or Linux. I downloaded the
Mandrake .iso and burned my CD and made my boot disk/setup disk. I can
get it to install and run Linux. But I can't get it to dual
I'm guessing you want the choice to boot between Linux Windows? Well,
you just need to setup lilo a little differently.
First, you need to know which partition your Windows C: drive is. If
you're not sure, run `fdisk -l /dev/hda` (assuming Windows is on hda) and
look for a FAT partition.
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, you wrote:
%_In some of the messages I have been reading there is mention
of determining which OS to boot with. Mine will only boot
on Linux. There is no choice. I did not partition the whole
hard drive to Linux. I believe windows is still there.
Did you select
At 06:53 21/05/99 -0700, you wrote:
I have linux on one hard drive(the master drive) and win95(the slave)
on another.
I set up lilo to let me choose between the two systems, but when I
select win95, win95 claims there is a non-system disk in the floppy
drive and then it hangs up. There isn't any
1. Reinstall linux, putting the boot stuff on the win95
hard drive. Change this drive to the master.
2. All the rest of linux goes on its own hard drive which becomes the
slave.
So, tell me somebody, will this work? I will do it when I get a copy of
Linux Mandrake 6.0.
adios, STeve W
Steve Winston wrote:
I have linux on one hard drive(the master drive) and win95(the slave)
on another.
I set up lilo to let me choose between the two systems, but when I
select win95, win95 claims there is a non-system disk in the floppy
drive and then it hangs up. There isn't any
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi beings,
if i need to run both mandrake and NT on the same machine,
does it matter in what order i install them ?
if i install NT first and then mandrake, will mandrake's boot
manager allow me to start NT ?
thanks,
mathieu
G'day
I have not used NT, but
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