Help!!

[flintstones73]

What are the steps that I need to take to be able to dual boot Mandrake and Windows 2000? Yesterday, I had Win 2000 on my 'puter already and after I installed Mandrake, I couldn't access Win 2000 (oops). How can i have both on the same 'puter?? What needs to be installed first and then second and what special steps do i need to do (or not do)??
Thanx

[twofoolish2b]

The first thing you need to do is partition your hard drive in half. Then you need to load Linux first on one partition, but put Lilo or Grub on a floppy because if you don't Windows 2000 will over write the Master Boot Record. Then load Windows 2000 on the other partition. When you want to boot into Linux just put in you floppy disk.

[chadm1967]

You'll need to configure Lilo (or Grub?) to recognize that Win 2000 is there. Here's how I did it in Mandrake by adding the following to my lilo configuration:

Note: I have Win200 installed on hda and Linux on hdb.....

other=/dev/hda1
label=windows
table=/dev/hda

I may have /hda1 and /hda turned around (I'm at work so I not able to check). Hopefully, someone will chime in and tell me if I'm wrong.

Also, I've heard some good things about the NT Bootloader. I haven't had a chance to use it, yet, so I'm not quite sure how to configure that.

Hope this helps.

[This message has been edited by chadm1967 (edited 17 November 2000).]

[kitcampbell]

Twofoolish--IMHO, you should load the Win2K first, then, during the setup of your linux install, select the option (which Im certain is worded differently on each distro, but still...) that installs LILO in the MBR. Then, Linux will load if you don't enter 'Windows'. If you want to change it, then edit lilo.conf and run lilo again. Forget that floppy disk stuff! http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

*PS, If I got the files to edit wrong, please tell me, like chadm I am also at work and unable to check. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/biggrin.gif*

------------------
Kit
"We forbid any course that says that we restrict free speech"--Collegiate Officials

[fuzzy]

Yeah, install linux after win2k.
Then, during the install, have it install lilo on the MBR. In some distros you can change which distro will be the default one (if you want it to be win2k, then choose it).
Otherwise, if it makes linux the default and you want it to be win2k, edit /etc/lilo.conf and where it says default=linux, change it to default=windows (or whatever the label is for your windows os -- you'll see that further down in your lilo.conf -- it'll say label=windows or label=win2k or whatever).
Win2k, by the way, I think needs to be the first os on your disk (hda1?).

------------------
"Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress...But I repeat myself."
--- Mark Twain

[kitcampbell]

Fuzzy- (Not countering, just asking http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif)

I thought you had to run (I think it was) /sbin/lilo after you change the conf file? Or is that just me misunderstanding something I heard before? Thanks!



------------------
Kit
"We forbid any course that says that we restrict free speech"--Collegiate Officials

[georgesr]

Win2K is a real problem no matter what other system you are trying to install. I was setting up Drake 7.2 on my friend's three machines all with Win2k on them. It took most of the day but I finally got them all running. Win2K is a real system hog and always wants to be the dominant system on the machine. On one machine I had to load win2k first then linux and grub. On the second machine I had to load linux first, then Win2k. I then booted linux from the floppy and installed Lilo in the MBR (grub wouldn't work at all). On the third machine I couldn't get either Lilo or Grub to work so I ended up installing Win2k then Linux and then System Commander, which worked. I also recommend using a seperate HD when using Linux with Win2k. You can pick up a 4 to 6 gig HD on the net for well under a hundred bucks and it's worth it.

Microsoft free forever.

QUOTE]Originally posted by flintstones73:
What are the steps that I need to take to be able to dual boot Mandrake and Windows 2000? Yesterday, I had Win 2000 on my 'puter already and after I installed Mandrake, I couldn't access Win 2000 (oops). How can i have both on the same 'puter?? What needs to be installed first and then second and what special steps do i need to do (or not do)??
Thanx
[/QUOTE]

[EniSol]

Okay, I have to disagree with all those who are saying to install Windows 2000 first. Because the bootloader for NT __has__ to be in the MBR.

This procedure would be used to dual boot a Windows 9x configuration. NOT WINDOWS 2000.

Once the bootloader for NT has been overwritten by Lilo, your NT won't be usable. At all.

You should install Windows 2000 after linux, and configure the Windows 2000 bootloader to add an option to boot your linux partition. Any other way will stop NT from working.

Have fun

Adrian/Eni$ol

[Cdc28p]

EniSol is absolutely right. To save yourself some precious time searching the web for the exact instructions...

1. Install Win2K first. Let it take over your MBR.

2. Create appropriate partitions to install Linux.

3. Install lilo on the partition that Linux resides, not the MBR.

4. Make sure you create a Linux boot disk.

5. Reboot your computer with the Linux boot disk. (Without the disk, you of course can't boot Linux at all because Win2K is in the MBR.)

6. Insert a floppy and execute "dd if=/dev/hdax bs=512 count=1 of=/mnt/floppy/linux.bin" where hdax is the partition where Linux resides. Change /mnt/floppy if necessary to point to where your floppy drive is mounted.

7. Reboot your computer into Win2K. Copy the file "linux.bin" from the floppy in step 6 into "C:\" or the appropriate directory where "boot.ini" resides. ("boot.ini" is often hidden.)

8. Edit your "boot.ini" file to include the line: C:\linux.bin="Linux"

9. Reboot. NT loader will now be able to boot Linux.

10. Download KDE2 and get rid of Window. (OK, this step is optional.)

Please let me know if there's any mistake above.

[This message has been edited by Cdc28p (edited 18 November 2000).]