Dual boot madness

[X-Calibur]

OK RH is sitting there... I don,t have the patience to wait till I get a 3rd machine Linux-Only... so will dual boot on the Celery 566 (secondary machine) with win2k for awhile....

Partition 1 (windoze disk C:): 4 gig
Partition 2 (D:): 4 gig

Resized so it goes C: 5 gig and D: 3 gig
Win 2k is on the D: partition (can't seem to remember why I did that .... one of those drunk' install I guess... ???)

SO: I think I should split the C: drive to have a FAT32 small 500 meg C: drive and a new 4,5 gig D: drive, where old D: drive get'S to be E: drive.... still with me?

Then install RH 7.1 on /dev/hda2 (D: for win2k)
Install LILO.... now I know that technically I should not be able to boot into win2k from now on....

Now I think I have to edit lilo.conf so it goes

other=/dev/hda3
label=win


then I should be able to dual boot?

ANy input would be HIGHLY appreciated before I jump in that ship.... :gigglelikeachild:

[Yo_Mama]

Umm, yes? No? Who the hell knows?

Try this:

ghost<cr>

format C:<cr>

And start from scratch. Then you can ghost back the windows partition whenever you want to. Of course, it would help if you had the ghost proggie...

[X-Calibur]

Originally posted by Yo_Mama
Umm, yes? No? Who the hell knows?

Try this:

ghost<cr>

format C:<cr>

And start from scratch. Then you can ghost back the windows partition whenever you want to. Of course, it would help if you had the ghost proggie...

Well let's jsut say that every possible proggie is out there on the web.... [remember flame ports are closed]

Ya but I wanna do it this way.... please , I'm sure my reasonning is not that bad, jsut needs fine tuning..... where's dnar when you need him grrrrrrrrrrrrr

[Yo_Mama]

He has to rest those overworked fingers sometime!

[dnar]

Originally posted by X-Calibur


OK RH is sitting there... I don,t have the patience to wait till I get a 3rd machine Linux-Only... so will dual boot on the Celery 566 (secondary machine) with win2k for awhile....







Partition 1 (windoze disk C:): 4 gig



Partition 2 (D:): 4 gig







Resized so it goes C: 5 gig and D: 3 gig



Win 2k is on the D: partition (can't seem to remember why I did that .... one of those drunk' install I guess... ???)







SO: I think I should split the C: drive to have a FAT32 small 500 meg C: drive and a new 4,5 gig D: drive, where old D: drive get'S to be E: drive.... still with me?







Then install RH 7.1 on /dev/hda2 (D: for win2k)



Install LILO.... now I know that technically I should not be able to boot into win2k from now on....







Now I think I have to edit lilo.conf so it goes







other=/dev/hda3



label=win











then I should be able to dual boot?







ANy input would be HIGHLY appreciated before I jump in that ship.... :gigglelikeachild:





Ok X, I still have a basic Win95 installation on my C: or /dev/hda1. Plus 3 different kernels all residing on /dev/hda10. So this is quad-boot! here is my /etc/lilo.conf for your reference:





[wayne@Criten /etc]$ more lilo.conf


boot=/dev/hda


append="hdc=ide-scsi"


map=/boot/map


install=/boot/boot.b


prompt


timeout=50


message=/boot/message


linear


default=Win4Lin-686





# RedHat 7.0 Install Kernel - i386


image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22


label=Linux-386


read-only


root=/dev/hda10





# TreLOS for Win4Lin kernel - i386


image = /boot/win4lin


label = Win4Lin-386


read-only


root = /dev/hda10





# Compiled Win4Lin kernel - i686


image = /boot/bzImage-2.2.16-22-Win4Lin-686


label = Win4Lin-686


read-only


root = /dev/hda10





# That other crappy operating system (its a joke)


other=/dev/hda1


label=Win95








Note: I beleive your W2K installation would be on /dev/hda2 if it is the 2nd partition or D: , so edit "other=/dev/hda2" accordingly.

PS Just how do you protect tabs and spaces in posts??? The above lilo.conf does in fact have spaces before most lines....

[X-Calibur]

Use the [ c o d e ] somecode [ / c o d e ] without the spaces or the " # " hot key button over the post window....

it should look like this:

cf include dnar.lib
cout >> "Your a freakin' Linux God"
cout >> "Hello World"
end


There ya go...