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On Tue, 28 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > thanks for your help on this topic. Now it works! I did it this way: You're welcome > > 1. Delete any existing partitions (have you all backed up??) > 2. Create with fdisk (MSDOS program) one primary Win 95 partition (1.6 GB) > 3. Install Win 95 > 4. Run Debian Rescue Disk and partition the rest of the hard disk as > follows: > - hda2 primary for Win NT (you can set the file type to any value you > want) > - hda3 as / (root) for Linux > - hda5 as swap > - hda6 and so on (as you like) > This means I have three primary paritions and one extended with two logical > partitions > 5. Install Linux on hda3 to hda6, but don't make it bootable (if you want > to use the NT boot loader) > 6. Copy the bootsector from Linux as described in the Win NT and Linux Mini > How To > 7. Install Win NT on hda2 (Win NT will show you all partitions on the > drive) > 8. Add Linux and the file bootsect.lnx to the NT boot loader as described > in the Win NT and Linux Mini How To > snip I have 3 small primary partitions; two with Win95, one with MSDOS. Linux is on extended partition. The Win95 directories are on large logical partitions. I can use MS or Linux fdisk to mark any of primary partitions active, and boot up on any of the OS's. I am using floppy to boot Linux, but I plan use loadlin or Lilo on the extended partition. hda1 is my production MS partition. hda2 will be experimental; I will try installing and uninstalling software on that drive before I install on hda1. I will install NT on hda2, and if there are no surprises, I will install NT on hda1. If I screwup, I won't feel badly about reformatting hda2. The MSDOS partition is for applications that don't run properly under Win95. I wanted multiple bootable MS (and Linux) OS's. Linux was no problem since the root file can be on any logical partition. However MS bootable OS's must be on a primary partition on the first drive. Hence all this work. King -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
