Re: Debian/NT Dual Boot?

2007-02-01 Thread Owen Heisler
On 1/29/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 10:54:56PM +, John K Masters wrote: > It can be done but it is very, very convoluted. Windows always > likes to overwrite the MBR which means you will lose GRUB or LILO. Not necessarily. You can tell LILO to pu

Re: Debian/NT Dual Boot?

2007-01-29 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 10:54:56PM +, John K Masters wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:42:42 -0800 > "Mitchell Verter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am hoping that someone can direct me to the best instructions on the web > > for setting up a dual-boot system running Debian and NT. > > > >

Re: Debian/NT Dual Boot?

2007-01-27 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 02:42:42PM -0800, Mitchell Verter wrote: > I am hoping that someone can direct me to the best instructions on the web > for setting up a dual-boot system running Debian and NT. > > Most of the HOW-TOs I've looked at assume that you already have Windows > running; my case is

Re: Debian/NT Dual Boot?

2007-01-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Saturday 27 January 2007 18:09, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:42:42 -0800 > > - resize linux partitions (cfdisk, parted, ...) For non destructively resizing partitions, I have previously used qtparted and I found that the GUI is pretty neat and intuitive. I have no qualms in

Re: Debian/NT Dual Boot?

2007-01-27 Thread Marty
Mitchell Verter wrote: I am hoping that someone can direct me to the best instructions on the web for setting up a dual-boot system running Debian and NT. Most of the HOW-TOs I've looked at assume that you already have Windows running; my case is the reverse. The computer already has Debian and

Re: Debian/NT Dual Boot?

2007-01-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:42:42 -0800 "Mitchell Verter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am hoping that someone can direct me to the best instructions on > the web for setting up a dual-boot system running Debian and NT. > > Most of the HOW-TOs I've looked at assume that you already have > Windows run

Re: Debian/NT Dual Boot?

2007-01-27 Thread Kent West
Mitchell Verter wrote: > The computer already has Debian and LILO running. > > If I want to put NT on the computer too, would I just partition the > disk (how do you partition in linux?) and then install NT on the new > partition and expect LILO to notice? I like to use cfdisk for partitioning. B

Re: Debian/NT Dual Boot?

2007-01-27 Thread John K Masters
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:42:42 -0800 "Mitchell Verter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am hoping that someone can direct me to the best instructions on the web > for setting up a dual-boot system running Debian and NT. > > Most of the HOW-TOs I've looked at assume that you already have Windows > run

Debian/NT Dual Boot?

2007-01-27 Thread Mitchell Verter
I am hoping that someone can direct me to the best instructions on the web for setting up a dual-boot system running Debian and NT. Most of the HOW-TOs I've looked at assume that you already have Windows running; my case is the reverse. The computer already has Debian and LILO running. If I wan