[TriLUG] Preparing for the Installfest

[J Johnson]

I have a Dell Latitude c810 that I am typing this email on, in Outlook, on
Windows 2000. :-( (No floggings please). Can't be helped as I develop
Windows apps (for now), and until I can shake my money maker in Linux, will
have to continue to do so. I'm thinking I am going to bring it to the
Installfest so I can set it up to dual boot Linux so that I can do Windows
when I'm at work, and do Linux the rest of the time.

 I have set up a dual boot Win98 / RHL 7.0 laptop before, and it was
relatively brainless. I have also set up a dual boot WinNT4.0 and RH 7.0
machine, which was not brainless. Both times the Windows OS was already
installed when installed the Linux OS. For the WIN98 dual boot, Lilo took
over the boot process and all was well. For the NT machine, I had to not
install Lilo, copy some file from the linux partition to floppy, boot into
NT, copy it to the hard  disk, and create an entry in boot.ini that pointed
to that file. That way NTLoader would 'boot'  that file when I chose Linux
at the startup prompt. So what I am going to get into for dual booting Win2K
and Linux? I thought  I had read somewhere that installing RedHat on a Win2K
box was now just like my experience with Win98, I.E. a no brainer, stick the
RH disk in and let her rip. Anybody done this? I ask because if that's the
case I can get the OS installed before the Installfest and then use the time
there to tackle some more detailed stuff. Also, is it possible to safely
mount an NTFS partition while booted into Linux?