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Re: mobo and cpu upgrade...sweet linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Thu Oct 29 13:21:49 1998
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 12:43:17 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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"Dale E. Reed Jr." wrote:
> Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
> >
> > Heh, told you so....
> >
> > Now where is the guy claiming there is no problem doing this in Winblows?
>
> Last month I replaced a Cyrix 166 MB running NT 4.0 on a 2940UW with one
> of the new Tyan Dual PII-300 MBs with a built in dual channel 7880.
> All I did was swap out all the hardware with the new and except for
> haveing to remove/add new audio drives (I had a SBPRo and the Tyan
> has a Yamaha on the MB) the upgrade went very smooth, with only the
> one reboot to install the audio. I was actually very suprised with it.
> I personally would never touch Win95/98, as they are just plain
> obnoxious.
>
> Anyways, heres my real question. I want to install Linux on an NT5
> notebook with a 6gb HD in it. 4gb will be for NT5 and the later
> 2gb will be for Linux. I already have NT5 installed on the 6gb,
> and will probably use something like Partition Majic to change the
> size of it. Now, when I install Linux, I'd prefer to keep the NT
> boot loader as the primary MBR of the drive, and just modify it to
> boot lilo on the second partition from the boot.ini file. Has
> anyone done this or am I just dreaming? If it is possible what kind of
> entry what I be looking at and how do I choose this when I install
> Linux?
0. No matter what else you do, let the Linux install create a Linux
boot diskette for you. Duplicate it. Insert diskette and reboot
when you want Linux. Eject diskette and reboot when
you want WoNT.
In addition, there are several ways to dual boot without the floppy,
1. Let Linux install LILO in the MBR. Set up /etc/lilo.conf to
have a 'linux' choice and a 'nt' choice. This does not interfere
with NT4. Does anyone have experience with NT5 on this?
2. Use the NT boot loader to give you a Linux choice.
I hear this works, but it requires some tricks. I never had to
resort to it since methods 0 and 1 always worked fine for me.
I think you install LILO in the boot block of the Linux
root filesystem partition, and tell NT to boot DOS from there.
There may be an additional step.
3. Use Partition Magic's boot manager.
If you buy PM, be sure you get version 4, as it also lets you resize
Linux ext2 filesystems easily. It boots Caldera's
Open DOS (not MSDOS) from diskette.
I expect someone will write an open source tool to
resize ext2 soon, but personally I don't mind using
Partition Magic - at least they support Linux.
>
>
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