Linux & windows question (fwd)

[Shaun Oliver]

Hi.
One thing you might want to take in to consideration is your drive space
after you repartitioned.
As you may or may not be aware, windows needs at least 500 mb of drive space
to install itself.
or alternately you could try getting a little proggy called win for lin.
I recently read a write up on it in pc user magazine and apparently, it runs
alot faster on the linux partition than it does on it's own native
partition.
This is due apparently to the file system that linux uses.
but take all this in to consideration and let us know how you get on..
Shaun
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Howell" <showell at lrxms.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 11:33 AM
Subject: Linux & windows question (fwd)


>
>
> I hate to ask this here, but please have a little mercy on me.
>
> I had a windows 98 partition and then I installed Linux behind it.
>
> Now windows 98 as it likes to do, has killed itself. Yeah, no blue screen
> here, but no a black screen with a little cursor. In any case I tried
> installing the evil thing again, but once you get to the point where it
> starts copying stuff the the drive it needs to perform the installation,
> it hangs.
>
> Now, I suspect, but have not tried to test this theory, but it must have
> something to do with the fact that old bloatware is no longer in the mbr,
> but instead lilo is.
>
> So, this might be the cause of the problem.
>
> So, could anyone confirm this? I really hate to do anything that would
> mess up my perfect Linux partition.
>
> I really hate to say this, but until there's a talking X server, I need
> windows for my online banking and a few other but very few apps.
>
> My wife though uses Gnome but she's sighted so speech isn't a problem for
> her.
> Ay, she's even getting the hang of it. I got my sister pretty well
> converted as well. Yes!!!!
> Ok, so what I propose to do is run fdisk -MBR and reset the mbr, then
> install the evil thing, then use a boot floppy to bring up Linux, and then
> re-run lilo.
>
> Do you all think this would do the job?
>
> Has anyone ever installed windows as a secondary os to Linux? I'd prefer
> this really.
>
> tnx
>
>
>
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