NT5 dual boot

[Kevin Brown]

Or System Commander.

> Mark wrote:
> 
> There is a program called Mrbooter, that should work in place of LILO, it's
> shareware, Dos based, and very easy to use.  I'll find the URL for you.
> 
> Mark
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CIE-Keith [mailto:keith@christianexchange.org]
> Sent: 14 February 2001 16:18
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: NT5 dual boot
> 
> 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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