Mukesh,
This may confuse Prakash. For dual boot, there are just
three options available:
a) Boot through Win-2k in MBR and call up Linux through
"loadlin" in which case the files to be tackled are
msdos.sys, config.sys and (maybe) autoexec.bat, if he opts
not to use the config.sys for loading linux.
b) Boot through LILO in MBR (viz through Linux). The file
to be tackled is /etc/lilo.conf
c) Use third party boot loaders in MBR like partition
magic, grub etc where none of the above are needed.
AFAIK, there is no way you can call up Linux through
win.ini except for specialised software like lin4win and
vmware. In which case it is not a dual boot system and a
somewhat dwarfed Linux runs as a child process under Win-2k.
First of all let him just load Linux on his Thinkpad. Its
not an easy process. I don't have a portable, but I have
installed two for friends ... for both I had to make custom
kernels for for full hardware support, and each took 2 to 3
days, with lots of trials and RTFMs !
He needs local support from someone in his vicinity for a
first time installation ... for a newbie it is difficult.
Partitioning and marking the partition-ids are critical, or he
may lose what's on his Win-2k partition. HOWTOs don't help
here, since they are NOT installed as yet.
Bish
On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 01:19:12PM +0530, mukesh jain wrote:
> You will have to strip the bootsect file from your /boot
> partition. Copy it to your win2k active directory and edit
> the win.ini file to boot that file from your choice(when you
> choose to boot linux). I think that it will work if your
> /boot partition is located within first 1024 cylinders of
> the hdd. See the corresponding HOWTO page which comes with
> linux distribution for more info on this.
>
> Mukesh Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gadepalli, Prakash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 12:09 PM
> Subject: [LIH] I want to Configure Linux2.0 on my IBM ThinkPad
>
> > Hello, Windows 2000 was installed in the primary partition
> > of my Laptop and I got 3GB space left in the secondary.
> > Shell I can install Linux2.0 in that space. If yes please
> > let me know the procedure and at the boot time how I can
> > configure so that it should ask whether to boot Linux or
> > Windows 2000.
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