Paul Kaplan wrote:
Thank you all. W2K definitely seems to demand /dev/hda1. Here's what I'm trying to do:Why not make your first drive the windblows drive, your second drive the linux
I have a laptop, supplied by my company, w/ W2K installed in a single partition on the "first" harddrive. I also have a second harddrive on which I have shown that I can install LM9 and use Samba to connect to my company network and be productive (vs W2K where I wait for everything). I can swap the two drives and place either in the first or second position. Since there are some things for which I must continue to use W2K, but I don't want to muck with the company drive (or its MBR), I'd like to setup my own drive w/ Lilo in the MBR allowing me the option of booting to LM9 or W2K. I don't have access to W2K install disks.
Can I create a small windows partition on the new /dev/hda1 and make a copy of bboot.ini, ntdetect.com and ntldr there? Do I need to modify boot.ini? How should I do so or where can I go for info? (I can handle the LM installation.)
TIA
Paul
drive, and install lilo in the mbr to boot both OS's. It's simple staraight forward
and when you choose to hand the machine back you can remove your drive
and use the dos switch to remove lilo.
Then in the next laptop all you have to do is fit your linux drive back and
restore lilo to the mbr.
So why go the windblows loader route which adds unnecessary complication.
John
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