On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Cannon, Andrew wrote:
> Matthew,
>
> Other people will correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that Window$ expects
> to be put on the primary partition and will wipe out all the other
> partitions. I would back everything up install W2K then partition the disk
> and reinstall RH.
Actually, I've installed W2K into an empty *primary* partition on a
machine with Linux installed. The only problem was that it made /boot
inactive, so I needed to have a boot diskette handy. Attempting to use
the W2K disk utility to make /boot active again would consistently destroy
the partition table (but fortunately, no data).
My last machine didn't have the diagnostic partition, so I could have
primary partitions for S2D, W2K, and /boot. If I don't want to give up
the diagnostic partition or S2D, I need to move one of /boot or W2K to a
logical one. The kicker is, for S2D to work, GRUB can't be in the MBR,
because APM S2D rewrites the MBR. (The real solution will eventually be
ACPI Linux with a hibernate function, which doesn't require a separate
partition.)
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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