[UCLA-LUG] Linux and Win

[Chan, Michael J]

Karol,

just to warn you, that if you put all the partitions onto one hard drive,
you want to make sure that the parimary linux partition (root fs) is within
the first 1024 cylinders on the hard drive... (linux needs to be somewhere
near the front of the hd) or else lilo will hang, and you'll have all sorts
of trouble restoring NT's boot loader if LILO craps out on you... NT doesn't
have the best restoration utilities out there...

Personally, you may want to consider installing linux onto another machine
if you have it... Having 3 OSes on one box starts having problems further
down the line with hardware upgrades, etc.etc.etc... (resetting IRQs in
win98 blows NT and Linux sometimes if you have ISA stuff... PCI usually
works fine)

Any reason besides testing that you want to have all 3 OSes? just
wondering...

mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Karol Finfando [mailto:kfando@ucla.edu]
Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 10:33 AM
To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
Subject: Re: [UCLA-LUG] Linux and Win


but there is that prompt from NT that asks you if you want to load NT or
Win98,
so you are saying that LILO will come up before that? (I had Win9x and Linux
before, so i know about LILO, i'm worried about that thing from NT),
maybe i should just use System Commander...  hmmm

"Tran, Daniel" wrote:

> if your intention is to keep win9x and NT then the RH6.0 installation
should
> go ok.
> Do custom installation where you have to define linux ext2 partition and
> swap partition.  There's an automated install option which will wipe out
> everything.
>
> At the end of installation you will need to install lilo which will go
into
> your master boot record (mbr).
> upon reboot, you will see the LILO: prompt.  Hitting the tab key will
allow
> you to select windows or linux.
> Make sure lilo.conf is configured correctly.
>
> The LILO prompt will come up everytime you reboot the system.
> I have a lot of OSes on my system so I use System Commander
>
> Daniel Tran - dtran@ucla.edu
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Karol Finfando [mailto:kfando@ucla.edu]
> > Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 10:14 AM
> > To: linux@linux.ucla.edu
> > Subject: [UCLA-LUG] Linux and Win
> >
> >
> > I'm thinking about installing RH 6.0 on machine that already
> > has Win9x and NT
> > 4.0, are there any complications, anything that i should be aware of?
> > Anyone tried that?
> > Karol
> >
> >
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