[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 8 Aug 2001, at 9:43, Joerg Johannes wrote: > > > Hi list > > > > I was asked by a friend to install Debian on her system. No problem > > usually, but she wants german windows, japanese windows and linux on it. > > Now, it is no problem to dual-boot, but it is not very easy to dual-boot > > two windows versions (You have to hide one partition in order to use the > > other one, I think). Has anybody done this before? Any hints how I can > > install and boot it? > Hi joerg: > Lilo handles this, but you need to install the latest version > (lilo-21.7.5). lilo-21.7.5 has a program called activate > which handles hiding the partitions (previously you had to > download the source and make lilo with table_rewrite in it)
I will have to download the sources from sid and compile it on potato, right? > Don't forget to backup anything valuable as one mistake > could wipe out all data. It will be an empzy box, but this advice is generally a good idea ;) > For the installs use linux cfdisk to manually hide partition > when installing a new os. It depends on what you have already > installed. You said you can dual boot so I'll assume you > have linux and a german window's already loaded and that > you have three partitions: hda1 with linux os, hda2 with german os, and hda3 > partion with no operating system (perhaps formated for > german window's?). As mentioned above, a complete new install > Boot into linux and go to root. Start cfdisk. Is it on potato install cd's? > Change hda2 partition type. If it is fat 32 (lba) the type is 0c. You need > to hide it by changing it to 1c (when you go into type it lists all the > various flavors). Write the new type and exit linux. > Boot with a floppy for the new os being installed. Go into win's > fdisk and check all the partions (number 4). You should see 2 > non-dos partitions and one dos partition. It's important that hda2 > is seen as non-dos or else you will be installing on hda2. If its > seen as a dos you need to go back into linux cfdisk and try > again to change the partition type. > If you do have 2 non-dos and one dos, you are ready to install. > If you are using the same file type you probably don't need to format > (but I guess it wouldn't hurt to format). If the new os is a different > file format you will need to format. Install new os. > Once install is complete, you need to use a linux boot floppy (as > the install will change mbr) to get back into linux. Change lilo.config > to reflect your new "other" os. Run lilo and if lilo doesn't complain, > it should show it's adding all three os. (If lilo complains "CHANGE > AUTOMATIC assumed", then add CHANGE AUTOMATIC in > lilo.config under the two win entries.) > Reboot and you should get lilo boot menu listing your three os. > good luck. HTH Dean So I'm going to install the two windowzes and then Debian. Hope it works, and thank you for the detailed description joerg -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000.
