> -----Original Message----- > From: Bjarki Bjorgulfsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Hello all, > > I will be installing RedHat and Win XP on the same hard drive > on a laptop. I > was wondering if you could give me some good advice before I start. > > Here is what I'm going to do: > > 1. Partition drive (Probably with Fdisk or with the XP > installation disk)
Make sure that you leave the space free (unpartitioned). > 2. Install XP on first partition > 3. Install Linux on second partition with the following partitions: > swap 512 > var 512Mb > home 1G > usr the space that's left. You also need a root (/) partition. It doesn't need to be very large (256-512MB should be plenty). > 4. Download nvidia driver and install in Linux > > I know I can make a boot disk to start Linux, but I would > like to have the > user choose if he wants to boot to Linux or Win XP when the > computer is > started. Does this require installation of Lilo? Is it > possible that it will > mess up the boot information for XP? Install lilo to the MBR, and during the installation, you should see dos (Win XP) as a boot option. You can choose which one you want to boot to by default. > > I remember once I copied the vmlinuz file to a Win98 > partition and I made a > little dos startup utility that let you choose which OS you wanted to > startup from. If the choice was linux then the vmlinuz file > was executed. > Can I do something similar with Win XP? Yes, you can export the vmlinuz file to Win, but it is more complex than letting lilo do the work. Forrest > > Any advice would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Bjarki Bjorgulfsson _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
