There are some pecularities with regard to MS OS's that you need to watch out for. They require that their boot partition be marked active or bootable. You can do that with Linux's fdisk. Linux doesn't care whether its partition is marked active or not. (If you run multiple independent MS OS's , i.e. not a dual boot setup through the boot sector loader, you'll want to use a boot manager that will mark the MS partition active before loading the boot sector for that OS. Recent versions of LILO won't do this (at least the last time I checked it wouldn't), so you'll need a boot manager. (I use OSBS and like it.) Again this is only true if you are running multiple independent MS OS's you don't need this if you only have NT and Linux or if you are allowing the MS boot sector loader to handle dual booting.)
I don't believe your setup will work. I'm pretty sure NT boot partition has to be on a primary partition on the first drive. This partition has to be either FAT16 or NTFS ans has to be large enough to hold NTLDR and boot.ini and ???. The partition holding the WINNT directory can be on any disk in either a primary or extended partition. (Note: Under NT terminology the boot partition is the one containing the WINNT directory, the system partition is the one containing NTLDR. This is counterintuitive and against convention. Most people refer to the partition containing the boot sector loader as the boot partition and the root or system partition as the one containing the OS. I'm using conventional terminology and not NT terminology.) You have two choices I believe: 1) Let the NT drive be the master drive. You'll have to use the debian installation disk to mount the Linux root partition from the second drive and change the /etc/fstab file. Also create a new boot floppy from the debian installation menu and after rebooting with it, make the necessary changes to the LILO configuration. You'll need to install LILO as the master boot record on the first disk, in order to boot to either NT or Linux. (There is also a program called bootpart that will allow you to boot Linux from the NTLDR menu. Then you would not need to install LILO as the MBR.) 2) Let the Linux drive be the master and find a way to create a small FAT16 or NTFS primary partition on the Linux drive. You'll need to set this up as NT's boot partition. Again you can use LILO as the MBR to boot between Linux and NT. (You may need to install LILO as the MBR after installing NT. I've had NT complain about the MBR if it isn't one that comes with one of the MS OS's.) Good luck, Tony Richardson -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
