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ShadowPuterDude

Sun May 07 2006, 01:43PM

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Dual Boot WIN 2000/XP & Linux

1. Use fdisk to partition your drive properly.

NOTE: If you already have Windows installed use QTParted from the Knoppix Live CD to reduce the size of your Windows partition. Leave at least 10 GB of drive space for Linux.

2. Install Windows 2000/XP on the first partition.

NOTE: Skip this step if Windows is already installed.

3. Start your Linux Installation and install the /root directory into the second partition. Install GRUB/LILO into the first sector of your boot partition (usually /boot) and NOT in the MBR.

4. Reboot into Windows 2000/XP.

5. Download & install Bootpart. NOTE: Install Boot part to C:\BootPart

6. Run Bootpart by doing the following: Start -> Run CMD OK Command Terminal will open, at the command prompt type the following command, pressing enter after each command.

cd \bootpart

bootpart

When you run it, you get a report similar to the one below:

Physical number of disk 0: ffff6a32
0 : C:* type=42 , size=22659651 KB, Lba Pos=63
1 : C: type=42 , size=17358232 KB, Lba Pos=45319365
Physical number of Disk 1 : ca1dca1d
2 : D: type=83 , size=6184993 KB, Lba Pos=63
3 : D: type=82 , size=522112 KB, LBA Pos=12370050
4 : D: type=83 , Size=1542240 KB, LBA Pos=13414275

7. Since GRUB/LILO was installed in the first Linux partition, the command for modifying BOOT.INI in this example is:

C:\BootPart\bootpart 2 bootlinx.bin Mepis Linux

NOTE: Substitute you Linux Distribution name for Mepis in the above command, i.e. Debian, RedHat, Fedora, Gentoo, CentOS, Mandrake, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Slackware, Suse.

Your boot.ini should be similar to this one:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
C:\BootPart\bootlinx.bin="Mepis Linux"

[ Edited Thu Nov 16 2006, 09:23PM ]

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