Re: Dual booting -- Adding windows to a Linux system

2005-10-11 Thread Yuriy Kuznetsov
On 10/10/05, Roy Pluschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 09:02 +, Florian Dorpmueller wrote: > > >But one thing that I'm not sure and not really know, will windows work OK > > >if it installed not on the first partition of the disk ? > > >Even I believe this will work, but b

Re: Dual booting -- Adding windows to a Linux system

2005-10-11 Thread Ms Linuz
Hendrik Boom wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:02:01AM +, Florian Dorpmueller wrote: But one thing that I'm not sure and not really know, will windows work OK if it installed not on the first partition of the disk ? Even I believe this will work, but better be carefull. --w.h--

Re: Dual booting -- Adding windows to a Linux system

2005-10-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:02:01AM +, Florian Dorpmueller wrote: > >But one thing that I'm not sure and not really know, will windows work OK > >if it installed not on the first partition of the disk ? > >Even I believe this will work, but better be carefull. > > > >--w.h-- > > > > Possible bu

Re: Dual booting -- Adding windows to a Linux system

2005-10-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 12:01:56AM -0700, Roy Pluschke wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 12:57 +0700, Ms Linuz wrote: > > Roy Pluschke wrote: > > > > >Is there a howto for dual booting an existing linux system with windows > > >2000. Everything I've found so far assumes windows is installed and > >

Re: Dual booting -- Adding windows to a Linux system

2005-10-10 Thread Roy Pluschke
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 09:02 +, Florian Dorpmueller wrote: > >But one thing that I'm not sure and not really know, will windows work OK > >if it installed not on the first partition of the disk ? > >Even I believe this will work, but better be carefull. > > > >--w.h-- > > > > Possible but not s

Re: Dual booting -- Adding windows to a Linux system

2005-10-10 Thread Florian Dorpmueller
But one thing that I'm not sure and not really know, will windows work OK if it installed not on the first partition of the disk ? Even I believe this will work, but better be carefull. --w.h-- Possible but not simple. E.g. you must manually set the drive and Advanced RISC Computing (ARC) pat

Re: Dual booting -- Adding windows to a Linux system

2005-10-10 Thread Ms Linuz
Roy Pluschke wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 12:57 +0700, Ms Linuz wrote: Roy Pluschke wrote: Is there a howto for dual booting an existing linux system with windows 2000. Everything I've found so far assumes windows is installed and then adding linux -- I'm going the other way -- exist

Re: Dual booting -- Adding windows to a Linux system

2005-10-10 Thread Florian Dorpmueller
Yes, on the same disk. I have to somehow reduce the current partition sizes and add a new partition for windows. I am also concerned that the windows installation will then screw things up (overwrite the MBR). Don´t know if it´s suitable for you but I am happy with WIN2k running under qemu (ht

Re: Dual booting -- Adding windows to a Linux system

2005-10-10 Thread Roy Pluschke
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 12:57 +0700, Ms Linuz wrote: > Roy Pluschke wrote: > > >Is there a howto for dual booting an existing linux system with windows > >2000. Everything I've found so far assumes windows is installed and > >then adding linux -- I'm going the other way -- existing linux system > >

Re: Dual booting -- Adding windows to a Linux system

2005-10-09 Thread Ms Linuz
Roy Pluschke wrote: Is there a howto for dual booting an existing linux system with windows 2000. Everything I've found so far assumes windows is installed and then adding linux -- I'm going the other way -- existing linux system and having to add windows. Unfortunately the program I need won'