On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 05:54:23PM -0600, Ronn Blankenship wrote: > At 12:11 PM 11/8/02, Alberto Monteiro wrote: > >The How-to is: > > > >(1) Install Windoze > >(2) Install Linux > > > >Alberto Monteiro > > > Actually, the answer given was to go in this order: > > (1) Install Linux first > (2) Install Windows
The real answer is: 1-install linux 2-install windows 3-install linux Seriously, step 1 is to partition your hard drive and Linux has some good tools for that (unless you prefer a pretty GUI then you may want to try one of the commercial partition tools). So first you "install linux" meaning you partition your hard drive for linux and windows. Then you install windows, which invariably overwrites the MBR (MBR controls the booting), so if you are going to use a Linux boot loader (LILO, GRUB), then you have to run that again to get the linux boot loader into the MBR, thus step 3. As for actually installing the linux OS files, that could occur in 1 or 3. > Which suggests a new question: How can one add Linux to a machine > with Windows already installed and running, without uninstalling > and reinstalling Windows (and all the Windows programs), much less > reformatting the drive and starting from scratch? There are programs that can re-partition your HD supposedly without losing data (I've never used one). Basically, if you have one or more partitions that aren't full, you can shrink them and use the resulting space to make one or more new partitions to which you can install Linux. Personally, this worries me, but I have known a few people who did it successfully and I have never heard of any catastrophic problems. But if it were me, unless I was willing to lose my data on my current HD, I'd just buy a new HD and install Linux on that. YMMV. -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
