dual booting win2k and linux

[Datagram]

Does anyone have this kind of setup?? I have an extra hd 3.2 gig hd in my comp set as slave, which is not currently being used. Also what would be a good distro for a newbie to use. I've had my eye on Mandrake 7.2 and Suse 7.1. I also read somewhere else where LILO should not be put on the MBR when dual booting with Windows 2k. Is this true and/or is it hard to set up this type of configuration with editing the boot.ini file in win2k to boot to linux. System specs
Asus A7V
850 T bird
256mb ram
Diamond MM external 56k
Maxtor 20 gig
Maxtor3.2 gig
Kenwood Cd-rom
Creative dvd rom
Hp writer
Asus V6800 Geforce256 32mb

[Datagram]

anyone??

[freaker]

Originally posted by Datagram:
Does anyone have this kind of setup??
Asus A7V
850 T bird
256mb ram
Diamond MM external 56k
Maxtor 20 gig
Maxtor3.2 gig
Kenwood Cd-rom
Creative dvd rom
Hp writer
Asus V6800 Geforce256 32mb


No...

, but I do have a dual boot win2k and slackware.. No problems at all - couldn't be happier - runs like a champ - etc....
there is NHF about the different distros.. My choice -
:D :D slackware :D :D
....the distro of champs...

freaker :cool:

[digital_spawn]

I have an extra hd 3.2 gig hd in my comp set as slave,
which is not currently being used.
if you really dont need that space much, try to use it as a win2k virtual memory .. windows runs faster this way, (... its only documented... stuff)

Also what would be a good distro for a newbie to use.

... for a new user - *redhat* or *mandrake* should be good enough (... and easy) - linux is always easy unless you are trying to hack some kernel code.

:rolleyes: to use the win2k NTLoader to boot linux , you go this way....

while installing linux , install lilo in the linux '/boot' not on the mbr, also make a linux boot disk when the installer askes you to.

..reboot, start up linux using the floppy you made, login as root , and then issue the command.

# dd if=/dev/hdxy of=/tmp/linux.bin bs=512 count=1

(here hd.. ('x') is the physical harddisk and ('y') is partition where linux resides... that means if it is the 1st partition on the first hdd then it is hda1 ... and so on...)

the command will make a file named linux.bin in your /tmp directory. using the 'cp' command copy it to your dos c:\> drive.

reboot, and start win2k... edit c:\>boot.ini and insert the line

c:\linux.bin="Linux".

reebot and your NTLoader menu should show a linux entry , select that and .... you log into the worlds most flexible os - linux,

:D :D :D :D