windows install?

[Biteyd0g]

i recently installed mandrake (im a newbie to linux) as my only os. im interested in creating a dual boot system with windows. I dont know what to do thoguh. do i make a windows bootdisk or what? http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/confused.gif thx for the help for such a dumb question.

[Tiger]

First step, go here and print it out. Ignore the stuff about NT.

Triple boot (http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/osbooting/tripleb.html)

Basically, you have to start over and install Windows first. When Windows installs it overwrites the master boot record of the drive and you lose Linux.




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[Evil Jeff]

Not true. Yes, it wipes the mbr clean, but if you have a linux boot disk, boot into linux, and as root, run /sbin/lilo and it will rewrite it. Then it's just a matter of adding windows to your lilo.conf file and running /sbin/lilo again.

Evil Jeff
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[Tiger]

Sorry Biteyd0g,

When I saw "newbie" in your post I assumed you had very little experience with Linux and would be uncomfortable doing it Evil Jeff's way.



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[Biteyd0g]

thx a lot. im gonna try it with win2k later