[TriLUG] Preparing for the Installfest

[David A. Cafaro]

Well I have a Dell Latitude C600 that is dual boot Mandrake 8.2 and Windows 
2000 (for work).  I had no problems installing.  I installed to Win2K 
first, and then Linux.  I used GRUB which had no problem booting Windows 
when I chose to.  To be safe though I still followed your process of 
creating a boot file for the NT bootloader.  So now my laptop boots to the 
NT boot loader, I choose Linux and go to the GRUB boot loader (which if I 
want I could select NT again and go back to the NT bootloader).  Works very 
nice.

I believe when I first tried it I had GRUB handle the initial boot 
sequence.  The biggest thing for my dell laptop was that if I wanted 
save-to-disk to work I had to make sure not to install GRUB to the MBR.  I 
installed GRUB on the /boot partition.  The APM save-to-disk works by 
switching the bootable partition from the partition you suspend from to the 
partition that has the save-to-disk image, and then back again.  Too make 
either the NTloader or GRUB handle the initial boot I simply used FDISK to 
set the active partition to either win2k or /boot.  Then used either GRUB 
or NTloader to go between the two OS's at boot.

-David

At 10:48 AM 5/3/2002, you wrote:

>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?
>
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