NT & Linux

[Tim Kay]

I'm going to be going through the same process this weekend,
with WIN95 instead of NT.

I've asked some other folks who've gone through the process.
I gathered that you need to install WIN95 first.  After that install Linux
and LILO.

LILO will allow you to boot either OS. If you install Linux first,
Windows over writes the MBR and screws up other things.

I'd like to be more clear on this also.

Thanks,

Tim


 At 02:49 PM 5/28/96 -0400, Dan Murphy wrote:
>OK, I got a new PC at work, installed NT, and will soon install Linux as
>soon as my CD's arrive from Infomagic. I've got a question regarding
>multiple boot.
>
>I've got two hard drives, and plan on putting Linux on the first partition
>of the second drive. Not knowing exacly how the NT multiple boot loader
>would do this, I started digging around. 
>
>I found some doc on boot.ini and the whole NT boot process. Then found this
>in the NT Resource guide:
>
>"UNIX cannot be an alternate operating system; only MS-DOS and OS/2 can be
>used as alternates."
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>
>Hmmmm, is this really true?
>
>The way I imagined booting Linux was to have the NT boot manager start LILO
>on the second drive, which would then boot Linux. Sound OK? Or, am I just
>going to have to boot Linux from a floppy? Welsh's "Running Linux" said
>things may be a bit tricky with OS/2 and NT and gave a few hints.
>
>Right now as a test, I'm just trying to use the NT boot manager to boot DOS
>on the second drive, and am not doing real great. The second drive is
>formatted with DOS boot files, but the system just crashes when I direct the
>boot manager to boot from the second drive. I'm missing a file named
>bootsect.dos and am trying to find it now. The resource guide says
>bootsect.dos is needed to boot an alternate OS, even if the OS isn't DOS.
>
>Any insights?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dan Murphy
>
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