Thanks. I think you just answered the first part of my question, in
that I should be able to install WinXP Pro in any of the three primary
partitions. If this is not correct, please let me know.
(It should be noted that although textbooks say that there are "four"
primary partitions, since the fourth one will be used to create extended
partitions, there are only three primary partitions in which to install
a bootable partition. Also, since Win98 does not use MBR, I am pretty
sure that you must install Win98 in the first primary partition, unless
you install a multiple booting tool first, such as Norton something.)
The second part of my question, which I did not ask, is that, if I
install WinXP "after" Linux, do I need to do anything? With Win98, if
installed after Linux, it will wipe out the content of MBR. When that
happened, you need to use a bootable floppy or CD, chroot, then reload LILO.
Thus, I am rephrasing my question: can I reserve a space for WinXP
(which will be below the 1012nd cylinder, or roughly 8GB), then install
it after everything is done?
Eric Hattemer wrote:
I am thoroughly confused at this email. First, when you say "dual
booting", are you refering to two versions of Windows? If not, then
there is almost no order required. You get 4 primary partitions on your
system (make sure you partition with win > NT or linux). The first
sector of your disk is the MBR, and points to the first sector of the
partition which will be booted. This can be any of the 4 primary
partitions. There are rules like that the start of that partition
cannot be over 8GB, and that it can't be an extended partition, but I
believe both of those rules can be cicumvented in most modern
situations.
When you install lilo to the MBR, it is the first thing that comes up
when your system is booted. It then selects which of those partitions
will be booted. For linux it automatically starts reading the kernel
and etc. For windows, it does a thing called chain loading, where it
starts the windows partition boot sector, and then windows starts
loading its own kernel. Sometimes people in linux create a boot
partition, which holds the kernel and whatnot. This is especially
useful for software raid or odd root filesystems that can't easily be
booted from lilo. You might want to put that at the beginning of the
disk, but it really shouldn't matter. It should be below 8GB, but other
than that, it can go wherever. Generally the windows partition should
start under the 8GB mark. But like I said earlier, I'm almost sure that
doesn't matter even in win98.
Now if you're depending on the windows bootloader in boot.ini, then
that's probably a different story. However, its a story that I know
little about. As long as you have linux on the system, you should
probably use lilo or grub. If not, you still might consider it or
another 3rd party boot loader. If you are using windows boot loader,
then I believe the NT-style OS should be first, but I could be wrong.
-Eric Hattemer
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 12:34, W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
When dual-booting with Win98, of course, Windows must be in the first
partition. However, I remember this (i.e., the Windows be in the first
partition) is not necessary with Win2000.
Does anyone know whether I can put WinXP Pro in a non-first partition?
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