Some installfest issues

[JKelly-rand at kmwarch.com (Jim Kelly-Rand)]

I am not a System Admin. or some one who had the time to find a way around
the documented limitations, but I knew that if I put forth my experience
that if someone had found a way they/you would respond. 

My next question would be to ask how  the person at the installfest wanted
to share the common data between the 3 systems? As far as I know Linux
cannot write to an NTFS partition, nor can W98. Vice versa Wxx cannot write
to ext2-3, or am I mistaken? I could install NT and 98 to the most primitive
versions of the fat FS and then Linux could write to that format. 

Jim Kelly-Rand

> -----Original Message-----


> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Jim Kelly-Rand wrote:
> 
> > Ihave documentation at home of the process I went through 
> to achieve an
> > NT/Linux dual boot but I am not there now.

> From: Matthew J. Brodeur [mailto:mbrodeur at NextTime.com]
> 
>    I have read the same documentation, and it's all wrong.  I don't 
> currently have a machine doing so, but it is quite possible to boot 
> BIOS->LILO->NTLoader.  I have done this in the past to create 
> Linux/W95/WNT and Linux/W98/W2K systems.
>    IIRC, and I might be misremembering, I would first 
> partition the drive 
> using Linux fdisk.  Then I'd install Win9x in C: (first 
> DOS-type Primary 
> partition), WinNT in another DOS partition (usually formatted 
> NTFS), and 
> then Linux somewhere else.  WinNT (or 2k) would see that I 
> already had 9x 
> installed, add an entry to NTLoader for me, and install it in 
> the root 
> block of C:.  During the Linux install I'd create a LILO 
> entry pointing to 
> that partition (usually /dev/hda2, since /boot was hda1) and 
> I'd just call 
> it "Windows".
>    This left me with one step to get to Linux (LILO->Linux), 
> or two to 
> either Windows (LILO->NTLoader->WinNT/9x).  I found this to 
> be much easier 
> than tricking NTLoader into booting LILO.
>