NT5 dual boot

[Todd Hought]

It seems that everyone has a method/opinion on how to do this, but I haven't 
seen mine yet, so I'll offer it up...
My rule of thumb is to install the operating systems in order of 
sophistication, lowest first.
First put on Win95
Then put on NT (NT5), since the NT loader is quite good at adapting to this 
config
Then put on Linux, since lilo is easy to work into existing windows 
installations.
Then when you boot, if you choose to go to windows, lilo will generally pass 
control over to ntloader, and away you go.

I still stand by what I said before...why would you want to? :-)
-T

On Wednesday 14 February 2001 07:58, you wrote:
> \_ I'm guilty.... The best way to go about it is to install NT5 (W2k)
> \_ in the first partition on the disk using the NT install's partition
> \_ maker.
>
> This is a key step, here folks.  Based on my experience on a tri boot
> and a few dual boots, you want to let the M$ beasts create the
> partititons the way they like them.  If you create them some other
> way, YMMV.  Typically I've seen the installers for M$ lockup/die
> unexpectedly (as opposed to anticipated deaths) when it doesn't get to
> write the partition tables.
>
> Linux, of course, can cope with whatever the partitioning is,
> excepting the 1024 cylinder limit on elder setups.
>
> David
>
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