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by **Cerebru** » Mon, 27 Nov 2000 13:03:24

Hello!
I want to ask about the linux setup question.
My computer is now running Windows 2000 Professional (NTFS),
can I install Red Hat Linux 6.2 to my computer and dual boot with
Windows 2000 Professional?
Since my Windows 2000 is NTFS, not FAT32, so can I dual boot
by the LILO?

by **J Sloa** » Mon, 27 Nov 2000 14:04:47

> Hello!
> I want to ask about the linux setup question.
> My computer is now running Windows 2000 Professional (NTFS),
> can I install Red Hat Linux 6.2 to my computer and dual boot with
> Windows 2000 Professional?

Should certainly be straightforward - I quit dual booting years ago,
after I got my wife her own windoze box, but I know a number of
folks who dual boot Linux and various versions of windows.

Quote:
> Since my Windows 2000 is NTFS, not FAT32, so can I dual boot
> by the LILO?

Lilo doesn't care what sort of filesystems you use, it just
points to the partition - the OS takes it from there.

jjs

by **Nick Ruis** » Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:52:16

It appears you can. I just set up a system like this last week. Here's
what I did:

1. Install a 2nd Hard Drive! (I can not vouch for what will happen if
you don't)
2. Install Linux to the 2nd HDD
3. Set your alternate boot partition = /dev/hda1 (substitute for Win
2000 boot disk)
4. You can actually let LILO write the MBR with Win2000!
5. Voila.

I have to admit, given the difficulty involved with geting NT to
co-exist with other OS's, I was a little nervous. But, it worked.

> Hello!
> I want to ask about the linux setup question.
> My computer is now running Windows 2000 Professional (NTFS),
> can I install Red Hat Linux 6.2 to my computer and dual boot with
> Windows 2000 Professional?
> Since my Windows 2000 is NTFS, not FAT32, so can I dual boot
> by the LILO?

by **Nick Ruis** » Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:52:49

P.S.
Linux cant read NTFS drives

> Hello!
> I want to ask about the linux setup question.
> My computer is now running Windows 2000 Professional (NTFS),
> can I install Red Hat Linux 6.2 to my computer and dual boot with
> Windows 2000 Professional?
> Since my Windows 2000 is NTFS, not FAT32, so can I dual boot
> by the LILO?

by **Robert Kieslin** » Wed, 29 Nov 2000 22:49:49

Indeed? What kernel version are you referring to?

> P.S.
> Linux cant read NTFS drives

> > Hello!
> > I want to ask about the linux setup question.
> > My computer is now running Windows 2000 Professional (NTFS),
> > can I install Red Hat Linux 6.2 to my computer and dual boot with
> > Windows 2000 Professional?
> > Since my Windows 2000 is NTFS, not FAT32, so can I dual boot
> > by the LILO?

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by **Billy Col** » Fri, 01 Dec 2000 22:49:07

> Hello!
> I want to ask about the linux setup question.
> My computer is now running Windows 2000 Professional (NTFS),
> can I install Red Hat Linux 6.2 to my computer and dual boot with
> Windows 2000 Professional?
> Since my Windows 2000 is NTFS, not FAT32, so can I dual boot
> by the LILO?

Are you going to try to do this all on a single disk? Things get tricky because
you'll need to shrink the partition and you'll need to fit the linux boot
partition
somewhere below the 1024th cylinder on the disk (which is usually under
the 7 or 8 Meg mark.. I think). If so, you may want to pick up a copy of
partition magic. Or, there may be some free utilities out there that will allow
you to do this. FIPS comes to my brain right now for some reason but I haven't
used it in years so I'm not sure what it's current capabilities are.

Billy

by **Maxim Kryachk** » Fri, 30 Mar 2001 06:25:12

Of course you can.
Just make sure you have Linux-NT-booting HOWTO printed handy
(www.linuxdoc.org).

> > Hello!
> > I want to ask about the linux setup question.
> > My computer is now running Windows 2000 Professional (NTFS),
> > can I install Red Hat Linux 6.2 to my computer and dual boot with
> > Windows 2000 Professional?

> Should certainly be straightforward - I quit dual booting years ago,
> after I got my wife her own windoze box, but I know a number of
> folks who dual boot Linux and various versions of windows.

> > Since my Windows 2000 is NTFS, not FAT32, so can I dual boot
> > by the LILO?

> Lilo doesn't care what sort of filesystems you use, it just
> points to the partition - the OS takes it from there.

> jjs

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