dual boots

[Samuel Morales Jr.]

why don't you install LILO or GRUB and just set
Windows as the default. Using a bootdisk seems like
suck a pain.

~Sam
--- peter <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>   I just thought I would pass this along in case
> some of you are wondering how to get a dual boot
> system going with WindowsX and Linux and not have to
> use the scenarios given.
>   In this case, I installed Windows Millennium and
> Linux RedHat 7.0 on the same hard drive.
> 1. Fdisk the drive into 2 partitions, this case was
> a 20gb split down the middle.
> 2. Install Windows Millennium on the first partition
> c: (enabled as boot)
> 3. Started Linux RedHat 7.0 install as custom,
> deleted 2nd partition and then partitioned as such;
> logical (l) 5th partition as Linux Swap of 64M
> logical (l) 6th partition as / root of 256M
> logical (l) 7th partition as /var of 512M
> logical (l) 8th partition as /usr for remainder of
> drive space
> I did not install lilo but created a boot disk
> instead. Now when I want to start WindowsX, I let
> the computer start unattended. If I want to run
> Linux, I pop in the boot floppy.
> Works well for me and I dont need to worry about any
> shared system files within other systems
> 


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