on Wed, May 11, 2005 at 08:51:08AM -0700, Bob Scofield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tuesday 10 May 2005 22:06, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> Here's one final question. As part of my missionary work I'm taking > my SuSE CD's. But it just dawned on me that while I have set up dual > boot systems several times in the past, it has always been with > Windows 98. Are there any special difficulties in setting up a dual > boot with XP? If anything, it's a tad easier. Win9x requires being installed on the first partition of your primary master IDE drive. NT/2K/XP/2K+3 don't have this restriction. Technically it's possible to handle 9X by using your bootloader to fake out the OS into thinking it's where it wants to be. Your standard GRUB / LILO install will have a sample configuration for booting NT-based systems (these use a chainloader option). Most modern system installers will detect and configure dual-boot automatically. The general guideline is to have your MSFT OS on the system first, then add GNU/Linux. Generally, install 9x, then NT, then GNU/Linux. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[email protected]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Douglas sneezed four times. Everyone blessed him. - David Schickler, "The Smoker"
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