installing Debian and WinNT 4.0
I'm trying to make a machine dual boot (I hate WinNT but I need it while I port some software to Linux) First, my hardware is not easy since I have a 12.9 GB disk, which I'd like to partition and have hold both operating systems. The problem that I'm facing is that I installed NT, but when I installed Debian/hamm, NT stopped loading (even when I set the NT partition to bootable) I think that part of the problem is that I have to use 'hda=1575,255,63' on the linux boot line in order to get cfdisk not to freak out, but when the partition info gets written back, NT no longer likes the format? Should I not be using cfdisk, rather linux fdisk to partition it?? Has anybody done a successful install of a dual boot machine with NT and Debian? I read the mini-howto on NT-loader, but I don't like it that much, since I have to transfer that LILO boot sector file across filesystems every time that I rebuild the kernel.
Re: installing Debian and WinNT 4.0
Yo- I have to use NT for work sometimes so I boot into it when I have to print Office97 stuff and to use Photoshop 5. Anyways, here is my lilo.conf, maybe it will help you. ##/etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda2 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=winnt table=/dev/hda Hope that helps. -Ian I'm trying to make a machine dual boot (I hate WinNT but I need it while I port some software to Linux) First, my hardware is not easy since I have a 12.9 GB disk, which I'd like to partition and have hold both operating systems. The problem that I'm facing is that I installed NT, but when I installed Debian/hamm, NT stopped loading (even when I set the NT partition to bootable) I think that part of the problem is that I have to use 'hda=1575,255,63' on the linux boot line in order to get cfdisk not to freak out, but when the partition info gets written back, NT no longer likes the format? Should I not be using cfdisk, rather linux fdisk to partition it?? Has anybody done a successful install of a dual boot machine with NT and Debian? I read the mini-howto on NT-loader, but I don't like it that much, since I have to transfer that LILO boot sector file across filesystems every time that I rebuild the kernel. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null __ Ian Setford [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP = F2 92 50 E3 CD D7 A2 D9 C4 CE 08 A6 98 E0 0F 58
Re: installing Debian and WinNT 4.0
On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Tom Lovie wrote: Has anybody done a successful install of a dual boot machine with NT and Debian? I read the mini-howto on NT-loader, but I don't like it that much, since I have to transfer that LILO boot sector file across filesystems every time that I rebuild the kernel. I was successful installing NT4 and debian on the same HD without reading the howto. I used LILO to boot ntloader on an IDE drive. I don't know if this works with that huge hd of your(SCSI?). If you are using LILO to boot linux, edit /etc/lilo.conf as if you are booting a DOS/Win3/9X partition. k e c h i e
