linux/win2k

[seungboy]

Hi,

I have win2k installed on my computer. My work just started using linux and so i want to get some practice at home. how do i install linux and win2k at the same time?

thanks,
seung

 

[Ulfwald]

I would be interested to know how to do this as well.

 

[Wade]

I was running W2K/W98 dualboot, I added Mandrake Linux yesterday... popped the CD in, followed the very easy instructions, and poof, now I'm triple-booting Linux, W2K & W98... very easy. As a Linux newbie myself, Mandrake was definitely easy to set up... easier than Windows 98, in fact, although not quite as easy as W2K.

Cheers,
Wade

 

[Inosuke]

There are lots o articles about this floating around, but go simple.

I run a Win200/Redhat 7 box, and it runs swell.
I have tried both ways, and if I were you, I would use lilo as the boot mechanism for the dual boot.

Search the net a bit, and dotn do it from any articles that are over about a page long, b/c the one I found made it VERY easy.

HAve fun,

Inosuke

 

[thornc]

Check this out its for NT but it should be the same for W2k

Linux+WinNT

 

[Biggs]

Some more important info right up here.

 

[Tiger]

Win98/NT/Linux triple boot

Here's a good one. Just ignore the Win9x part.

 

[cmv]

It is easy... I have this setup:

30gb drive

1st partition - NTFS w/ Win2k (15gb)

Then I install Red Hat 7.0/Slackware/Mandrake/OpenBSD/FreeBSD/whatever on the rest of it... If you have a large hard drive make sure you use a recent linux distribution as lilo (linux loader, like nt boot loader) had problems with large drives until recently... Also in the /etc/lilo.conf there is a default line (in the Redhat 7.0 install) that says "linear", you may have to change that to "lba32" for it to work correctly, kind of a gotcha, just make sure you make the boot disk when it prompts so you can still boot into linux to make changes (I figured out how to do it without the boot disk it was an involved process).

 

[SemperFi]

I see a lot of good articles here. I have to add one to the list. From SUOrangeman