It's best to install Windows first, as it always overwrites the master boot record, which destroys a Grub or Lilo setup.
Grub is perfectly capable of booting Windows by 'chain loading' to the Windows loader. Booting linux from the Windows loader is a lot more complex. I'd recommend having a fat32 (vfat) partition for sharing data between the Windows and Linux. However, one of the major snags with vfat is that it does not support group and user attributes, and seems to map the fat 'archive' attribute to 'executable' under linux, which is rather irritating. vfat is also a poor choice for NFS sharing because of it's lack of user and group attributes. Cheers, Dave Sean wrote on 01/24/06 04:06: > I have a laptop I want to setup to boot either Gentoo or Windows. > Looking around I am trying to find recommendations as to which is better > to install first, Gentoo or Windows. From what I found, either often > gets a recommendation. > Would anyone recommend which is the best method for setup, start with > Gentoo or Windows? > I also want to setup a common partition for data storage which both can > access. Again, can anyone recommend a setup? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
