Windows 2000 & RedHat 7

[micky]

Hi eveyone!
I'm wondering if Windows 2000 Pro and RedHat 7 can coexist on the same machine?!
Is there any problems known between these two or they work perfectly together?!
I would also like to know the best procedure to install them together (if possible!)
Thanks,
Mike

[Unruly]

Welllll...

Windows goes first. Why? 'cause it won't install unless it is the first OS on the first partition of the Master hard drive... Nice of 'em huh?

So, partition the drive roughly in half (or to whatever specifications you want. Then, install windows on that first block of partition (seen to Linux as hda1).

Then, once you've spent a good 6 hours, delete windows, and try it again ( :D hehehe ).

Once you're done, boot up the red hat cd (set your system BIOS to boot from the CD or the bootable disk) and install it there. Tell it to go to the second partition (which you can split up into smaller segments for different partitions... to whatever you like/need) This will be labeled as HDA2 (I think) install it, set it up to install LILO in the boot sector of the drive, you'll be good to go. Hopefully, you'll be able to set up LILO to allow you to boot both linux and windows at startup.

Note: this is just a quick and dirty overview, but I'm sure you'll see what I mean once you do it a few times.

[sym]

That is how I did it too. When I did it, my Red Hat 7 automatically picked up th Win2K install and setup the LILO dual boot.

[witman]

I managed to install Linux in a NON-DOS partition of my harddrive (the first partition). It took some operation, but I was sick of seeing Linux as some windows *****.
I installed Linux first, creating a ext2 partition, a swap partition and a vfat partition. Then, after making a bootdisk, I installed widows. Windows will erase your master boot record when you install it so make a boot disk.

[chimaybleue]

There is NO interaction between Win and Linux, just because they are not on the same partition ... Just take care of your boot sector !

[digital_spawn]

:rolleyes:
install win2k...( you might want to do it in a fat32 partition ... why ? read *****)

then make a linux / (ext2 primary) and a linux swap - install linux.

*imp:* install lilo on the '/boot' partition not on the mbr - use xosl (http://www.xosl.org) to boot your linux system then on....

******
use fat32 instead of ntfs if you are not experienced with linux before... this makes it easier to access your windows partition from linux. its' not that you cant access ntfs from linux .... but you need to install some extra files for it.... :confused: quite confusing for a newbie.

to access your win2k partition from linux at the commond prompt issue a command :
$mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win2k
(where /dev/hda1 is the win2k fat32 partition and /mnt/win2k is the mount point for that buggy file system :p :p )

[micky]

Can Linux really read/write NTFS partitions?

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by micky:
Can Linux really read/write NTFS partitions?

could be wrong, but someone else posted the "extra stuff" you have to load and it will only read the ntfs partition, not write to it

[Duh]

just do a partitionless install, works fine.

[Paul Weaver]

cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.x
make menuconfig
--> file systemms --> NTFS (read only) --> NTFS write support (DANGEROUS)


x CONFIG_NTFS_RW: x
x x
x If you say Y here, you will (maybe) be able to write to NTFS file x
x systems as well as read from them. The read-write support in x
x NTFS is far from being complete and is not well tested. If you x
x say Y here, back up your NTFS volume first since it may get x
x damaged. Also, make sure to run chkdsk from within Microsoft x
x Windows NT after having performed any writes to a NTFS partition x
x from Linux to detect any problems as early as possible. x
x Please note that write support is limited to Windows NT4 and x
x earlier versions. x
x x
x If unsure, say N.