how make muti boot on win2000 with linux???

Well, if you have only installed LILO once, you might be able to restore your original boot record via "/sbin/lilo -u"

If that doesn't work, you can fall back on the sure-fire solution--boot up from a DOS or Windows bootdisk and use "fdisk /mbr" to clean the MBR.

If you want to actually dual-boot Linux and Win2K, there are three ways to manage it. The easiest way is probably to install Win2K first, then install Linux. The RedHat install script <i>should</i> notice that you have a bootable Windows partition and offer an option to boot your Windows partition via the Linux boot loader.

If you install Linux first, then you have to do some editing of the /etc/lilo.conf file--something you should probably not do until you're comfortable with Linux.

The third (and most difficult) method of managing such a dual-boot is by taking an image of your Linux bootsector and adding it to your Win2K bootloader list. This allows you to choose to boot Linux from the NT boot menu. There's a mini-HOWTO on this at <A HREF="http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html" target="_new">http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html</A>.

Kelledin

bash-2.04$ kill -9 1
init: Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?

>If you want to actually dual-boot Linux and Win2K, there
>are three ways to manage it.

Here's a 4th.
Get a program like partition magic or system commander.
Partition Magic/Boot Magic is a great program. Resizes your partitions on the fly to make room for the new OSs, and then sets up a menu to boot them.

At one point I had the choice of RedHat 5.2, Win98, DOS, or WinNT at boot up. Life is much simpler now. I just don't reboot :-)


In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.

I have Partition Magic 6.0, so I take it BootMagic works good for duel booting W2K and Linux?

Well to eat your <b>C kie</b> and have it too, gotta get <b>Rade n II</b>

Do you use nfts for your windows partition? I did not have any luck with selecting windows from the lilo before and wondered if that was the reason. I failed with the dual boot a few months ago and now want to try again (the xp big brother thing has boosted my interest). My hd currently has 3 partitions xp (9.5G) win2k (15G) and about 5 unformatted.
If in install Mandrake on this one and use the LILO loader when I select windows it should go to the NT loader right? If this is simple tell me where to go to read. I formatted my drive and reinstalled so many times on my last attempt that I lost interest. Also had trouble setting up the NIC to work with cable modem if anyone has any advice for that.

Ja, it should work like you say. I've used both NTFS and FAT16 (currently NTFS) for my Windows partition--though I haven't actually tried loading NTFS Windows partitions through LILO. I would suspect it shouldn't matter though...you would just put an entry in /etc/lilo.conf something like the following (assuming/dev/hda1 is your Windows active primary):

<pre>other = /dev/hda1
label = Windows
</pre><p>Then you have to actually make sure the lilo boot sector gets read first; the easiest way to do this is to have lilo install its boot sector on your MBR or use a boot floppy. I doubt you'd actually have to edit /etc/lilo.conf directly though--the Mandrake installation script should give you some option to boot Windows partitions and put lilo in some special place.

As for modifying file attributes in WinNT, that's normally done by right-clicking and going to "properties" for that file. You should have some checkboxes at the bottom of the "Properties" window for Read-Only, Archive, Hidden, etc.

I miss the "attrib" command too... =(

Kelledin

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