Home
| Calendar
| Mail Lists
| List Archives
| Desktop SIG
| Hardware Hacking SIG
Wiki | Flickr | PicasaWeb | Video | Maps & Directions | Installfests | Keysignings Linux Cafe | Meeting Notes | Linux Links | Bling | About BLU |
Hello, System Commander really makes life easier with dual booting NT & Linux. NT's loader is really bad, LILO is good but NT has problems with it. I find it much easier just to use system commander. Hope thats a help, Anthony On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Randall Hofland wrote: > Hello; > > I finally gave up on trying to set up SuSE 6.3 for a dual boot > system. Although my original clean install of 6.3 worked flawlessly on a > K6 system except for the video card which failed with both LINUX and NT > (same problem with several cards suggests a problem with the AGP port > itself), all of my recent efforts at installing a dual boot system on a > dual Pentium system using multiple partitions on a SCSI and IDE drive > combination have led to much wasted time. > Plus I now face the possibly of corrupted boot disks for both NT and > SuSE as neither even boots up for a clean install: SuSE hangs during the > uncompress/install step in YAST 1 or 2 (with and without the boot disk) > and NT has similar problems now with the boot disk (probably an NT > modification of the boot disk since I forgot to write protect the disk > before attempting the install). I am now unable to get either hard drive > to install either of the two OSes. Makes me wonder if NT has done > something to my drives despite multiple efforts to get SuSE to > repartition the drives. Please note that DOS 6.X installs without any > problems but I have not yet tried Windows 3.1. > I have instead started trying to get the Mandrake 7 system to boot > up on my dual Pentium boxes with fresh 9G UW-SCSI drives and seem to be > having somewhat better luck at this (a server install in progress on one > machine and nearly complete as I write). Has anyone successfully created > a dual boot system with Mandrake 7? I'd like to boot up NT and LINUX > using LILO on the workstation mentioned above using the SCSI drive for > BOOT and SWAP partitions and the IDE for ROOT. > I'd really like to have a dual boot system rather than setting up > separate boxes. > > Thanks! > > - > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the > message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored). > - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
BLU is a member of BostonUserGroups | |
We also thank MIT for the use of their facilities. |