On Wednesday 06 April 2005 09:52 am, Max Lemieux wrote: > Regarding laptops, I've been unable to use the OEM WinXP System Recovery > CD for this Vaio since creating new partitions on the drive. This was a > pain because it didn't come with any other XP disc. The only option for > reinstalling the (corrupted keyboard driver) Windoze side of the system, > was to reformat the whole drive. So be careful with your XP side if you > are dual booting a laptop.
Dine is the same way, it really sucks. What makes it worse is that its NTFS. you see, after you run the restore, and have a windows system running, you have to re-size the NTFS partition to make space for your linux system. It took me hours to figure out, and a couple days to get both systems running... Jamie > > Dual booting a few other systems with XP/RedHat or XP/Knoppix(Vanilla > Debian, Mepis, etc) has been utterly straightforward. All the Linux > distros seem to set up the dual boot automagically now. The info on the > Net about manually configuring Grub/Lilo for a simple dual boot is now > happily outdated. > > -Max > > Jim K wrote: > > Windows will clobber the MBR, but some distros like Mandrake and Red > >Hat and Fedora when you boot the first cd in the set have a rescue mode > > that will recover the MBR for lilo or grub, tthen from within linux you > > can add windows onto lilo or grub. Also, if when installing linux or > > afterwards you make a boot floppy, you can get into linux that way to > > recover the MBR for lilo or grub. > >Jim K > >----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Rob Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <[email protected]> > >Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 9:47 PM > >Subject: [Eug-lug] dual boot > > > >>It's been so long since I set up dual boot on the same drive I can't > >>remember the tricks. Here's how I think it goes... can anyone correct > >>me if this is wrong? > >> > >>Format drive > >>Install Windows on first half of drive > >>Install Linux on second half and put the bootload in the MBR > >> > >>What I think I remember is that if you install Linux first, Windows will > >>want to stomp on it. Also, I believe Windows doesn't like not being on > >>the C:\ drive. > >> > >>Does dual boot work fine with XP? > >> > >>Thanks, > >>Rob > >>_______________________________________________ > >>EUGLUG mailing list > >>[email protected] > >>http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > >> > >> > >>-- > >>No virus found in this incoming message. > >>Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > >>Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.3 - Release Date: 4/5/05 > > > >_______________________________________________ > >EUGLUG mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
