[Gllug] duel booting

[Xander D Harkness]

I remember having problems in this area, it was because when I 
partitione dthe disk with whatever GUI was in front of me it tried to 
stick everything in a huge extended partition and nothing would play nice.

I ended up using partition magic.

Cheers
Xander

Simon Bunker wrote:

> Mandrake isn't the best distribution to do this - the graphical partitioning
> and mounting may look nice, but it is pretty buggy - I wouldn't rely on it -
> better to use Partition Magic (if you are having Windows too it is quite
> nice) or fdisk. Putting Windows on first is the better way of doing it, but
> first time I did it I had to re-install Windows as Grub overwrote the MBR.
> This time I thought the same would happen with Red Hat 7.1, but I was amazed
> that just installing it (primary FAT C: drive, logical NTFS E drive, lots of
> logical Linux ext2 drives)  and it worked.
> However, LILO could boot from over the 1024 cylinder (8Gb) limit, but it
> needed a primary partition so the /boot directory had to be on a primary
> partition - personally I just made / primary - probably a bad idea, but
> convenient :o) Keeping the boot loaders seperate was a very good thing
> though.
> 
> I was preasantly suprised at LILO's graphical interface - looks nicer than
> GRUB - not sure if it's on 7.1 though - I had Mandrake 7.0 on before - LOTS
> of gclib problems :o( plus I didn't loose the NT (win2k) boot.
> 
> I think IA64 systems are going to gett rid of the crazy partitioning system
> we have at the moment - only 4 primary partitions is plain crazy and
> logicals are a pure fudge.
> 
> PS you learn quite a lot about partition tables from fucking it up the first
> dozen times.....backup.
> 
> Simon
> http://www.rendermania.com/
> UIN 11123737
> 
> 
>>>          I do not think if this will be of any help or not but I have
>>>had very little trouble dual booting Mandrake 7.1 and Windows95/98
>>>
>>Incidentally, if you are trying to dual (duel) boot Linux with NT, I've
>>found that you should install NT first, so that the NT boot loader is in
>>the MBR.  Then install Linux and write LILO to the first sector of the
>>boot partition.
>>
>>Then you do the faffing about of exporting the Linux boot sector into a
>>file, and write it to the NT partition (C:\) and edit the NT bootloader to
>>boot Linux.
>>
>>If anyone's interested I'll find a link to the How-To I read...
>>
>>Lee
>>
>>
>>
> 


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