Dual boot question...

[Todd Hought]

Not True! :-)
a while back at fry's I saw a KVM box that would switch everything, mouse, 
video, kb, AND mic and speaker wires. was even 8 port, too, kinda pricey tho, 
like 5 bills, IIRC.
I would generally install windows first, then let linux do its thing 
afterwards, but the method listed below is pretty clever, wish I woulda tried 
that a year ago when I built a linux/windows box and had to reinstall 
RedSplat because of it. (I've since abandoned the windows part. anyways, so 
its a moot point. :-)

On Monday 23 July 2001 23:53, you wrote:
> Maybe it's my backwards personality but I would always expect to install
> NT/Win2K first, then linux and lilo should recognize and offer the choice
> of either at bootup. However Tara's method makes a lot of sense if you 
> have to re-install Windows ;-)
>
> I would generally discourage dual-boot systems - my preference is to use a
> 'KVM' switch and have two boxes, one monitor, one keyboard, and one mouse.
> This still doesn't solve the issue of needing to have a separate set of
> speakers for each box unless you've decided that sound is pointless on
> Windows ;-)
>
> Craig
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Tara
> > Johnson
> > Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 10:21 PM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: Re: Dual boot question...
> >
> > At 09:53 PM 7/23/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> > >"Lynn P. Tilby" wrote:
> > >> I have a box with 2 scsi hd's.  I want to load NT on the
> >
> > non-root drive and
> >
> > >> make it a dual boot system without reinstalling my RedHat
> >
> > system.  What is
> >
> > >> the best way to go about doing this?
> >
> > Hi Lynn,
> >
> > The first thing to do is to re-install LILO to run off of the
> > superblock of
> > the linux partition.  Also be sure to make a LILO boot disk so
> > that you can
> > get back into linux after you've installed NT
> >
> > Install NT on your system on your other drive.  when you are done
> > installing NT, then load up linux using your bootdisk
> >
> > mount the NT hard drive in linux.  This is the command to use,
> > assuming you
> > have mounted NT's C: to /mnt/nt/ and linux is installed on /dev/sdb:
> >
> > as root type in,
> >
> > dd if=/dev/sdb1 of=/mnt/nt/boot.lnx bs=512 count=1
> >
> > reboot your computer into NT
> > open up c:\boot.ini with notepad (this is a hidden system file)
> >
> > at the bottom of the file, add something like:
> >
> > c:\boot.lnx="Load Linux"
> >
> > then just reboot, and you should be able to pick "Load Linux" from the
> > dropdown list, and have it load up.  Just be sure to run dd again if you
> > change your LILO configuration.
> >
> > good luck,
> > Tara
> >
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