[linux-help] Re: help..

[Hareesh V H <fd98209@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

thank you all! the lesson i have learned is that it is safest to install
linux on a windows machine and not the other way. i guess this can be kept
as a rule of thumb. but anyway this fact only adds to the fact of linux
being a os-friendly os :) 

regards,
Hareesh.


On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Jeff Vian wrote:

> 
> the "Oh Shit!" approach is the best for a system that already had Linux
> installed.
> 
> For ease of setup and install, always install windows first because of the
> mbr problem.
> Then when Linux is installed, (at least with RedHat) it will see the windows
> OS and prompt for making it dual boot.
> The comment about windows wanting the first physical partition is, as far as
> I know, correct.
> 
> However, with LILO you can boot windows from almost any partition on the
> machine.  It just needs to be set up in lilo to boot that way.  Thus, if you
> install windows on a drive (say in the C: drive position) then move it to
> some other hardware location, (maybe to E: or F: ) then lilo will still be
> able to boot windows with the proper configuration settings.
> 
> If you are dual booting with NT there are some additional considerations.
> You must use the NT boot loader instead of LILO.  See the docs for how.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Koji Hayakawa" <sylf00@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 10:02 PM
> Subject: [linux-help] Re: help..
> 
> 
> >
> > That being said, I always have a linux rescue diskette, and I labeled it
> "Oh
> > Shit!" disk.  With my Oh Shit disk, I can boot my machine into linux mode,
> > load both fat, fat32, and ext2 partition.  After loading ext32 partition,
> I
> > can run lilo as I desire, and mbr is back to the state you want.
> > Also my understanding was that windows always want to claim the first
> > partition on the first physical drive on the machine....  at least windows
> > 9x/Me does.  Maybe I'm wrong on this.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
> > Behalf Of Jeremy King
> > Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 2:10 PM
> > To: linux-help@xxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [linux-help] Re: help..
> >
> >
> >
> > If I recall correctly, the windows install has a
> > pretty brain-dead approach to disk
> > partitioning--first, it checks for free space, if it
> > finds some, it creates its partion there, without
> > disturbing the existing partitions.  If it finds no
> > free space, it asks for permission to claim the entire
> > disk for itself.  Assuming that there was free space
> > set aside (not partitioned) when windows was
> > installed, all you should need to do is to set up lilo
> > as described previously.  If there was no free space,
> > and Windows took the whole disk... the rest of the
> > story should be pretty obvious.
> >
> > Jeremy
> >
> >
> > --- Jim Vetor <jvetor1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > I wondered it he might be in more trouble then just
> > > the mbr changing but I
> > > don't know Linux well enough to really know and that
> > > prompted my question.
> > > Good luck to him and maybe someone with the know how
> > > will answer our
> > > question correctly.
> > >
> > > Jim Vetor
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Hareesh V H <fd98209@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 12:25 PM
> > > Subject: [linux-help] Re: help..
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > i also had the same feeling and i guess there is
> > > good reason to believe
> > > > so. what happened to my friend when he tried the
> > > unconventional method of
> > > > installing windows in an existing linux box is
> > > what prompted my help
> > > > request actually :) :)
> > > >
> > > > regards,
> > > > Hareesh.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Jim Vetor wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I have a question, if you have a drive that has
> > > only Linux and you try
> > > > > installing Windows will it mess up the Linux
> > > partitions? I was under the
> > > > > impression that it would. I thought if you
> > > wanted a dual boot you needed
> > > to
> > > > > have Windows installed first then install Linux.
> > > > > Wondering.
> > > > >
> > > > > Jim Vetor
> > > > >
> > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > From: lowell <lowell@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 12:19 PM
> > > > > Subject: [linux-help] Re: help..
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > > From: "Hareesh V H"
> > > <fd98209@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > > To: <linux-help@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > > Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 7:43 AM
> > > > > > Subject: [linux-help] help..
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >  hi! there's this problem - someone i know
> > > installed windows on a
> > > > > machine
> > > > > > > running linux already. the mbr got changed
> > > and he now wants to
> > > install
> > > > > > > lilo in the mbr. how is this possible?
> > > thanks in advance.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > regards,
> > > > > > > Hareesh.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >     Try this: reboot from bootdisk (you DID
> > > make one,
> > > > > > didn't you?) ,edit /etc/lilo.conf  to make Win
> > > partiton recognized &
> > > > > > bootable, run /sbin/lilo, reboot.
> > > > > > HTH
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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