Use Google to find several howtos on dual booting using NTLDR (the Windows NT/2000/XP boot loader)
I have tried and it works fine. Regards, Robert Some days you are the bug, some days you are the windscreen. -----Original Message----- From: Yuri de Groot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 11 March 2004 10:51 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Adding linux.bin to C:\BOOT.INI I'm flying to Wellington tomorrow to set up linux for my big brother. He's got XP on hda and has bought a second hd just for linux. (Paul, I'll be dropping into e-caf tomorrow to buy distro-of-the-month). The plan is to install linux on hdb, then do: dd if=/dev/hdb of=/mnt/floppy/linux.bin bs=512 count=1 and then copy linux.bin to C: and add c:\linux.bin="Linux" to boot.ini I have read somewhere that it doesn't always work when linux is on another drive, but my brother does not want to repartition his XP drive. Has anyone done what I've described above and does it actually work? I want to give my brother his money's worth (he's paid for my flight to Wellington and he's gone and bought another hdd just for this project). I'm also turning an older PC into an IPCop box (dial-up) for him. He's gone for connecting the IPCop and the new PC via cross-over rather than a network switch, even though I advised him to buy a switch (I guess he's bought too much already - might buy him a switch for his birthday). Yuri
