Linux & windows question (fwd)

[Stephen Dawes]

Scott,

Is windows installed on a primary or extended partition.  This makes a
difference.  It should be installed on a primary partition.  Once this is
done, it is my understanding that you can then tell lilo which OS to boot.

Have you looked into the talking X-Windows project.  Keith Watson was
telling me about it this weekend.  It is out of the UK and Matt Campbell has
done some work for this project.  You may get information from Matt on where
to find it.

Finally, there is some howto's on multi-Os and linux and windows.  Check out
both the howto and mini-howto pages for more information.  I know that I
have read 1 such howto, that talks about having dos windows linux all boot
from 1 hard-drive.

HTH!



Stephen Dawes B.A. B.Sc.
Web Business Office, The City of Calgary
PHONE:  (403) 268-5527. FAX: (403) 268-6423
E-MAIL ADDRESS:  sdawes at gov.calgary.ab.ca




> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca
> [mailto:speakup-admin at braille.uwo.ca]On Behalf Of Shaun Oliver
> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 2:10 AM
> To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> Subject: Re: Linux & windows question (fwd)
>
>
> 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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