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MS-DOS, Windows NT 4.0, and Linux Triple Boot via LILO?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Scoggins)
Fri Nov 15 10:06:22 1996
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 07:52:30 -0800
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From: Steve Scoggins <sscoggin@evergreen.com>
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This is a draft of a how-to on installing MS-DOS, Linux, and Windows NT that
I am
working on. Please send me corrections or comments via Email to:
sscoggin@evergreen.com
Hopefully this will be of some help to some of the members of this mailing list.
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How can I install MS-DOS, Windows NT 4.0, and Linux and use LILO as the
boot manager?
The Linux LILO program can be configured to boot MS-DOS 6.X, Windows NT 4.0,
or Linux. Follow the setup procedure listed below. The procedures below are
based on the use of two SCSI hard disks, where MS-DOS & Linux are installed
on disk1 and Windows NT is installed on disk2.
The install order I recommend is as follows:
1. MS-DOS 6.X
2. Linux
3. Windows NT 4.0 Workstation
Note: This example is based on the use of two physical SCSI hard drives,
however you can also use IDE drives if you edit the device names to
correspond to your version of Linux and your hardware.
1. Cold boot your system using a MS-DOS setup floppy (Version 6.XX), use the
FDISK utility to setup a single, active boot partition of 200 MB or larger
for MS-DOS.
2. Reboot the computer and install MS-DOS on the partition created in step
1. (Drive C:)
3. Reboot when the MS-DOS install is completed and confirm you can cold boot
the system to a MS-DOS prompt.
4. Using the MS-DOS setup floppy supplied by your CD-ROM manufacturer,
install your CD-ROM drivers on Drive C:
5. Install Linux using one of the popular Linux distributions, such as the
one from RedHat. (I highly recommend that you use the Red Hat Linux release
4.0 official distribution, see the details at the following RedHat web site
http://www.redhat.com/news/rhl-intel.html. The RedHat distribution is easy
to install and includes a recent version of the Linux Kernel. The Linux
Kernel includes a built-in SMB daemon supports peer-to-peer networking with
other WFWG 3.X, Windows 95 or Windows NT based computers.
6. You should following the basic install process in the RedHat official
users manual, the setup will give you an opportunity to use the Linux FDISK
to edit or create partitions. You should verify the proper partitions
using the Linux FDISK p command which prints the partition information to
the monitor screen.
Disk 1 PARTITION DESCRIPTION SIZE DEVICE MOUNT FILESYSTEM LILO Type
Partition 1 MS-DOS 200 MB /dev/sda1 /dosc MS-DOS FAT16 6
Partition 2 Linux (Root) 100 MB /dev/sda2 / Linux ext2fs 83
Partition 3 Linux (User) 600 MB /dev/sda3 /usr Linux ext2fs 83
Partition 4 Linux (Swap) 32 MB /dev/sda4 Linux ext2fs 81
Disk 2 PARTITION DESCRIPTION SIZE DEVICE MOUNT FILESYSTEM LILO Type
Partition 1 Windows NT 600 MB /dev/sdb1 NTFS 7
7. The Linux distribution setup program will prompt you to choose the setup
options for LILO. You should choose the option allowing you to write the MBR
partition to /dev/sda.
8. After completing the install of Linux, you should be able to boot your
computer and select Linux from Windows NT's boot loader menu. After you
select Linux from the boot loader menu press Enter to boot Linux on the
/dev/sda2 partition.
9. After you verify that you can boot MS-DOS or Linux you can then install
Windows NT by booting to MS-DOS and running the "winnt /b" from the Windows
NT 4.0 CD-ROM. After the Windows NT 4.0 Workstation install is finished you
can do a cold boot of the system and type "nt4" at the LILO prompt to boot
to Windows NT 4.0 Workstation.
10. Type dos at the LILO prompt to boot MS-DOS.
11. Type linux at the LILO prompt to book Linux
12. Type tab at the LILO prompt for a list of boot options.
Note: You can also use the Windows NT boot-loader instead of LILO for you
mult-boot loader.
Steve Scoggins (Email: sscoggin@evergreen.com)
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