Re: LILO - NT and Linux

Rudolf Leitgeb (leitgeb@stanford.edu)
26 Mar 1997 19:24:10 GMT


In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.970325113700.17934K-100000@fotd.netcomi.com>,
"James L. McGill" <fishbowl@fotd.netcomi.com> writes:
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>
> On Fri, 21 Mar 1997, SubbaRao V. Chitturi wrote:
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>>1. Is it possible to have NT and Linux on the same disk? Where can I
>>find more information about using high-end OSs on the same disk along
>>with Linux?

I have that. The only thing that will not work is lilo, i.e. you have to
use loadlin instead (which works _very_ nicely)

Apparently Lose NT puts something in the DOS boot partition, and lilo tries
to do the same. As a result, if you install lilo after installing Lose NT,
Lose NT will not boot and you have to reinstall the whole NT partition.

As long as you stick with loadlin, everything should work fine. Make sure,
you got a DOS FAT partition so you can exchange data between linux and NT.

Generally, NT seems to be a little bit brain dead as it comes to coorperation
with other OSs on other partition. Therefore you should install everything
in this sequence:

First make DOS partition, install DOS
Then make NT partition, install NT
Then make linux partition, install linux

Make sure you leave plenty of space for linux + swap, because after some
months you won't be using NT anymore :-)

Good luck

Rudi

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