[ILUG] Dual booting in Windows 2000

[cybersean3000 at yahoo.com]

Dual booting is working fine on my laptop.  The 20GB was once a large 
Winderz partition with 2K Pro, but lilo, DracX and Mandrake sorted 
that.  I now have a dual boot laptop which has gone from Mandrake to 
RedHat to Debian and back to Mandrake in the space of about 3 months. 
 No Prob Bob!

If you are concerned, there is a way to add another OS to the Winderz 
NT boot manager, I did this with RedHat 6.2 and Winderz NT 4.5 
Workstation.  However, I do not know if it will work with 2K.



On 24 Sep 2001, at 13:40, Paul Askins wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 12:40:59 +0100, the words of 
> "Catherine Ansbro" <cansbro at eircom.net> did resemble:
> > Would dual-booting in 2K & linux present the same risks as
> > NT & linux?
> 
> Yes, Win2000 boot loader is essentially the same as NT's (if not exactly
> the same).
> 
> > My plan was, after 2000 was safely installed on all our computers, to
> > "sneak" in & partition one of them for 2000 & linux.  Can this plan be
> > saved?   On another website I read that one should always install
> > Windows
> > first, as it will always "take over" everything else.  That's why I
> > thought
> > I should put the 2000 on first, then partition for linux. . .
> 
> Best option would be to use dos Fdisk or NT's disk manager to wipe the
> partitions on the disk.  Then make a primary partition of maybe half the
> disk's size (or as big as you want for Win 2000).  Then install Win 2000
> on this partition.  Next, install Linux on the remaining space using
> whatever partitioning scheme you need.  Any of the new distros will
> suggest a partitioning scheme for you but they're not always the best. 
> When you get to the bootloader section choose to install lilo on you Linux
> root partition.  This might be /dev/hdb2 if you installed / as the second
> primary partition.  At this point, make sure you created a boot floppy
> aswell beacuse Linux wont be bootable yet.  When install is finished, the
> computer reboots and you should boot from the Linux floppy.  You'll need
> to get the Linux boot record from where ever it was installed, so as root
> do:
> dd if=/dev/hdb2 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
> I think this is the correct syntax, but I'm not sure as it's been a while
> since I done this.  Anyway, copy the file /bootsect.lnx to a floppy disk
> and reboot into Win 2000.
> Edit the file c:\boot.ini  which contains the NT bootloader instructions. 
> Again, not sure of the exact syntax but you need to add something like
> linux = c:\bootsect.lnx
> which will add the option "linux" to the NT bootloader at startup.
> Some searching on google might give the exact syntax.  Just don't change
> any of the existing lines!
> 
> > I have to be careful, as our computer friend says "if I put anything
> > other
> > than Windows on our machines it's the last I'll see of him!"  So I don't
> > want to crash the whole system by doing something stupid.
> 
> Doesn't sound like much of a friend :)  I wouldn't be too sorry to see the
> back of this person if this was the sort of answer he gave me to an O/S
> question.
> 
> 
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