[Gllug] XP - Linux dual boot

[stanley]

Simon Faulkner wrote:
>> Building a new PC for a friend who needs XP for his work but wants to
dual
>> boot Linux as well (RedHat 9)
>>
>> Any particular best way to do this?
>>
>> Simon
>>
>If you want to keep the Windows boot menu you'll need to create a boot
>floppy for the Red Hat installation then reboot with it. Next mount your
>floppy drive and create a linux.bin file for Windows with:
>
>dd if=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1 of=/mnt/floppy/linux.bin
>
>Reboot into XP and edit your C:\boot.ini file by adding:
>
>C:\linux.bin = "Red Hat Linux"
>
>The Windows boot menu should now have a Red Hat Linux option.
>
>Garry Heaton

personal choice would be this way (the linux.bin file) as it dosent affect
any m$ partitions (ie you can have 98 and xp and linux will then fit in ) As
for reading NTFS no you dont have to recomplie the kernel if you are runnign
red hat just goto
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/redhat.html

and follow the instructions. the standard set up alowws read only, but you
can change it to read and write if you want.

Rhys




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