Lance, I've had excellent experience getting Linux (Debian dist) to dual boot with Win2k. I generally make a small 10MB parition at the front of the main disk to act as the /boot partition. You use this parition to install your LILO block instead of overwriting Win2k's boot loader at the head of the disk. To make my life easier I generally use PartitionMagic to let me move the Win2k paritions around without having to redo anything. PartitionMagic can format Linux ext2 paritions as well (never had problems with this). Here's what one of my machines looks like (I've had equal success on machines with 1 disk):
/dev/sdb1 / /dev/sda1 WINDOWS parition C drive /dev/sda2 /boot The most important thing is to read the NT Linux Bootloader document. I know it's for NT, but it works the same for Win2k. NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO http://www.linux.com/howto/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html Hope this helps. Pete Lance Heller wrote: > > Subject: dual boot with Win 2000? > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Work requires I use Windblows 2000. Other linux users with whom I > work report that while they've successfully built dual boot W95/W98 > boxen, they've had no success with W2000, apart from a separate boot > disk of course. I expect shortly to begin a linux install into > virgin extended partition. While I've made a number of W95/W98 dual > boot boxes booting through lilo, what W2000 specifice problems should > I expect? > > Thanks for your help. > > Lance > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Lance Heller [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > 047CF18A: 55F1 FF14 0620 1B7F A82E B5F8 3C94 02F7 047C F18A > 8B7C7901: 424F 17DB 5683 6A18 CDD6 6C65 5E1E 9F86 8B7C 7901 > 5F648A7E: 8B86 24FB 1CD9 C997 C2A3 9E5D 16BD 5F7F 5F64 8A7E > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature
