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by **Cory Philli** » Wed, 22 May 2002 15:49:54

I have been using Linux for several years. I have Red Hat 7.2
installed and have decided I would like to buy a new hard drive to
install Windows on. I know from reading the documentation that
installing Windows first is best, but I don't want to reinstall Linux.
Can someone point me to documentation on how to install Windows on a
Linux system for dual boot?

Is it possible to use my new drive as the primary and take my current
primary drive with Linux and make it the slave drive and still boot it
somehow (via Boot Magic or OS Selector)?

Note: I have a copy of Partition Magic 6.0 which include Boot Magic. I
can install it if I need to, but the documentation states it must be
installed on a FAT32 file system on the first boot drive.

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by **Sam** » Wed, 22 May 2002 16:45:39

> I have been using Linux for several years. I have Red Hat 7.2
> installed and have decided I would like to buy a new hard drive to
> install Windows on. I know from reading the documentation that
> installing Windows first is best, but I don't want to reinstall Linux.
> Can someone point me to documentation on how to install Windows on a
> Linux system for dual boot?

The only pb is that windows will replace your mbr when you install it.
So just keep a boot disk of grub or lilo and reinstall it on the mbr once win
is installed.

Quote:> Is it possible to use my new drive as the primary and take my current
> primary drive with Linux and make it the slave drive and still boot it
> somehow (via Boot Magic or OS Selector)?

Sure. Everything should be ok as long as bth drives are detected in the BIOS
and that your boot manager is properly configured.

Sam

by **Maarten Korste** » Wed, 22 May 2002 20:31:05

If you want to work savely, it might be an idea so save a littlebit of space
for a tiny primary linux partition on your new first hard disk. You can
install your Linux bootmanager in its boot record instead of in the MBR so
that your can experiment savely. Do this before installing windows so that
it occupies a position below the 1024 cylinder limit.

Maarten

> > I have been using Linux for several years. I have Red Hat 7.2
> > installed and have decided I would like to buy a new hard drive to
> > install Windows on. I know from reading the documentation that
> > installing Windows first is best, but I don't want to reinstall Linux.
> > Can someone point me to documentation on how to install Windows on a
> > Linux system for dual boot?

> The only pb is that windows will replace your mbr when you install it.
> So just keep a boot disk of grub or lilo and reinstall it on the mbr once
win
> is installed.

> > Is it possible to use my new drive as the primary and take my current
> > primary drive with Linux and make it the slave drive and still boot it
> > somehow (via Boot Magic or OS Selector)?

> Sure. Everything should be ok as long as bth drives are detected in the
BIOS
> and that your boot manager is properly configured.

> Sam

by **ne..** » Wed, 22 May 2002 22:04:24

> I have been using Linux for several years. I have Red Hat 7.2
> installed and have decided I would like to buy a new hard drive to
> install Windows on. I know from reading the documentation that
> installing Windows first is best, but I don't want to reinstall Linux.
> Can someone point me to documentation on how to install Windows on a
> Linux system for dual boot?

> Is it possible to use my new drive as the primary and take my current
> primary drive with Linux and make it the slave drive and still boot it
> somehow (via Boot Magic or OS Selector)?

> Note: I have a copy of Partition Magic 6.0 which include Boot Magic. I
> can install it if I need to, but the documentation states it must be
> installed on a FAT32 file system on the first boot drive.

If you MB is relatively new all you need to do is change
the boot order in the BIOS. Then install Windows on the
new drive.

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by **Nico Kadel-Garci** » Thu, 23 May 2002 12:37:45

> > I have been using Linux for several years. I have Red Hat 7.2
> > installed and have decided I would like to buy a new hard drive to
> > install Windows on. I know from reading the documentation that
> > installing Windows first is best, but I don't want to reinstall Linux.
> > Can someone point me to documentation on how to install Windows on a
> > Linux system for dual boot?

> > Is it possible to use my new drive as the primary and take my current
> > primary drive with Linux and make it the slave drive and still boot it
> > somehow (via Boot Magic or OS Selector)?

> > Note: I have a copy of Partition Magic 6.0 which include Boot Magic. I
> > can install it if I need to, but the documentation states it must be
> > installed on a FAT32 file system on the first boot drive.
> If you MB is relatively new all you need to do is change
> the boot order in the BIOS. Then install Windows on the
> new drive.

Take the Linux drive *OUT* while installing Windows. It's the only way to be
sure. Then leave the Windows drive as the boot drive, re-install the Linux
drive, and muck around with the installation CD's in "linux rescue" mode
until you correct fstab, lilo.conf, and/or grub.conf until you've restored
dual-boot function.

by **Michael Kell** » Fri, 24 May 2002 11:57:28

> Can someone point me to documentation on how to install Windows on a
> Linux system for dual boot?

You can try
www.linuxdoc.org

What flavor of Windows are you installing?
Even in Win95 you could have a small C:
partition with some system files on it
and install the bulk of Win95 on another
partition. With newer flavors of Windows
you should have more options.

As well as the Linux docs you might take a look
on http://msdn.microsoft.com

and also ask around on their nntp server
msnews.microsoft.com (you can read the
ms groups from other servers but your
postings will only propagate if you
post 'em there.)

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