As it happens, I just did something similar with my primary XP machine. It doesn't really matter whether the XP drive remains as master or gets moved to slave; that'll be an elementary decision on your part. It may be helpful to leave it as primary master, so XP's drive letters aren't potentially confused. I'm not sure if that would be an issue at all. In my particular case, hda is XP's C:, hdb is XP's D:, hdc and hdd are CD devices, and all the linux partitions are on hde (primary master of a second IDE controller). It works seamlessly.
Somewhere along the installation path for Linux, you'll come to the part where you select bootloader options. I use GRUB, so the following tips apply to GRUB. I suspect LILO is not vastly different. The installer will have probably automatically created the GRUB entry for your linux installation. You'll need to add an entry for your Windows installation, which is as simple as giving a label and device where the XP boot partition is located. You can then elect which OS you wish to boot by default. Ensure that your bootloader is set to be written to the MBR of the primary master, and you're all set. If I've oversimplified this, it's because A) It's been just long enough that I don't remember the specifics and B) I don't want to give advice that is necessarily distro-dependent. I hope this is helpful! Cheers, ~Brian P.S.: I'm sure you're already aware that modules are available to allow you to mount NTFS partitions in linux, but did you know you can mount ext2/3 partitions under Windows? There's a utility called ext2fsd (google for it) that makes it happen. Acts like an NT service. It's in version 0.2.0, so you might not want to use it for mission-critical work, but it's a neat ability to have. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Dean Price > Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 5:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [TriLUG] Dual Booting > > > If I have Windows XP on a single drive machine and add a larger disk as > the master, load it with linux and move the xp drive to the slave > position. What needs to be done to make it dual bootable. > > Dean Price > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
