NT5 dual boot

CIE-Keith keith@christianexchange.org
Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:18:23 -0700


I had nothing but trouble trying to maintain w95 and Linux on the same
drive.  Every time I reinstalled w95 it would overwrite the mbr? and I
would have to play with lilo or reinstall Linux.  I spent a week
trying to get the two to play nice with each other.  I think it is a
windows dominance problem.

My solution was to use two hard drives.  Things work better however I
think the real solution is two removable hard drives.  I will be
installing w2k server (NT5?) soon and will be using a removable.  I
want to use the same box as both a w2k server and a Linux server, on
separate removable drives.  Of course this all in the privacy of my
home.

Keith Smith
(not the football player)



----- Original Message -----
From: Lucas Vogel <lvogel@exponent.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 10:15 PM
Subject: RE: NT5 dual boot


> I have a Sony Vaio laptop with Windows 2000 that I set up with an
extra
> partition to install TurboLinux, which we got when we bought a hub
for one
> of our offices. I could not for the life of me get the LILO to play
well
> with NT5 - I'm still not entirely sure why. I never DID get it to
work, but
> I read up on the MS website on something about a NTDetect.dos file
or
> something similarly titled that you can edit to boot into "other
operating
> systems", though I don't know if that's MS wording for other MS OS's
or
> not...
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eden Li [mailto:eden.li@asu.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 9:12 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: NT5 dual boot
>
>
> Nah, it's not stupid... You probably can.. see the previous posts..
> I prefer LILO over NT's boot loader though..
>
> Eden
>
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 07:11:07PM -0700, CIE-Keith wrote:
> > Can you use the NT boot loader also?  Please forgive my ignorance
if
> > this is a stupid question.
>
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