On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 11:46:44AM +1000, Robert Maurency wrote:
> I'm about to dual boot my Dell Laptop with Win2k and RH 7.3 and am
> relatively new to this.
>
> Any suggestions as to partition sizes or any problems to expect, eg will
> having the NTFS file system cause RH any problems down the line?
It should just work. I haven't played with RH7.3, but if you use
LILO it'll work fine. Here's my lilo.conf (RH 7.0):
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=100
linear
default=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19-7.0.16
label=linux
read-only
root=/dev/hdb1
other=/dev/hda1
label=nt
table=/dev/hda
Install NT first. Being from Microsoft, it likes to takeover, so it'll
wipe LILO if you installed Linux first and you'll need to boot from a
floppy or CD to get it back.
You can get NT's boot loader to boot Linux, but it's a right pain when
you change kernels. It's far easier to use LILO.
Cheers,
John
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