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need serious help with Win2k / mandrake 8.1 duelboot

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Vampirrella

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i have a 20GB UNpartitioned IDE drive that id like to use multibooting with Win2kpro and mandrake 8.1. I am a total newbie when it comes to Linux but this is why i want to install and play around with it.

INSTALL WIN2k
===========
So now im at the point where i have to install one of the OS's first.. i chose to install Win2kpro first.

I load in the 4 start-up disks and put in the win2kpro cd. After a long load process we're at the blue screen and its says i gotta make the partitions and format them in Fat or NTFS. I choose NTFS and split 12gb (of the 20) for win2k in 2 partitions. (approx. 5 and 7GB each) away it goes.

Win2k is now installed on C:\ with like 4.2GB left and D:\ is 7GB all free and boots up fine.


INSTALL LINUX
==========
i install Linux which is very simple i must add, go thru its own partitioning program ect. Here is where i run into my first issue: I use the "auto allocate" methode and it creates a /root, a /swap and a /home partition with the remaining unpartitioned space. Can i have this many partitions on a since drive? 2 win2k partitions and 3 linux partitions??

Linux has taken up hd6 as its bootable drive and win2k took hd1. When its completed everything it restarts and i can boot into Linux but never into win2k.

Anyway it goes on and installs everything and finally comes to the boot loader screen with the following options that were installed by default:
Windows2000
Linux
Linux-nonfb
Failsafe
NT
windows
floppy

I have no idea why there is an NT option, i dont have NT at all. Why are there 2 windows options, both of which dont boot up. All the other options work great.

So what am i missing here? Is there a specific why to install everything, a certain order?


i have been tearing my hair out over this topic and i need some advice! Keep in mind, im a newbie at this and i realize i might have done something wrong so dont flame me for being a pinhead LOL

thanks in advance!
 
Hey, use a program like partition magic to make the linux parition. I find it a lot easier than using diskdrake. Also, make a swap with partition magic, then when the install comes, chose the linux partition from the list, dont give it a drive name, because its NOT fat32, its going to be a linux partition.

Rules for swap partition, double your ram size.

If you want to play around with partition magic, drop me a PM I will show you some ...screenshots 😛
 
I avoided that hassle by having Linux put its boot loader onto a floppy, so it didn't disturb the w2k boot files or boot sector.
 
Here's something from the faq section to help you out with NT bootloader. faq

If you wanna go into windows so that you can configure boot.ini, just insert the win2k disk and go into recovery and then type in "fixmbr". That should get rid of the grub bootloader(I'm assuming it's grub since you said you installed the default one).
 
You should have placed LILO on a floppy and when you wanted to boot Linux simply pushed the diskette into its drive. That way if you decided not to continue playing with Linux you could just remove the partitions and throw the floppy away and not be concerned with altering the 2000 MBR.

But this is all childs play, and I--a child--play.
 


<< Anyway it goes on and installs everything and finally comes to the boot loader screen with the following options that were installed by default:
Windows2000
Linux
Linux-nonfb
Failsafe
NT
windows
floppy

I have no idea why there is an NT option, i dont have NT at all. >>



Win2k is essentially NT.



<< Why are there 2 windows options, both of which dont boot up. >>



There are 3, which ones do not work and which one does?



<< All the other options work great.

So what am i missing here? Is there a specific why to install everything, a certain order? >>



Looked fine to me.



<< i have been tearing my hair out over this topic and i need some advice! Keep in mind, im a newbie at this and i realize i might have done something wrong so dont flame me for being a pinhead LOL

thanks in advance! >>



Check your "/etc/lilo.conf" to make sure you have it setup properly (there is a how-to at the site for Linux documentation project). Remove the entries you do not want. Other than that, give us more information so we can help you. And by help I mean so you dont have to resort to using a floppy.

EDIT: just to be nitpicky because this bothers me: Duel is not the same as Dual, and by ect I believe you mean etc.
 
Heh... n0cmonkey you're a pedantic psychopath 🙂 j/k

Er.. how much linux do you know? You probably have to do what n0c said and edit your lilo.conf file. That's /etc/lilo.conf ...

Hmmm. What text editors does mandrake come preinstalled with? I like pico myself (uh oh) because for me and for my uses, pico is fine, nano is good to and it is very similar. VI and emacs are hard. So yeah, edit /etc/lilo.conf.

n0c I don't think windows is bootable at all, at least, as far as I understand. I think that maybe lilo is either set up wrong, or she/he somehow messed up the win2k partition.
 


<< Heh... n0cmonkey you're a pedantic psychopath 🙂 j/k >>



Was that supposed to be an insult? 😉



<< Er.. how much linux do you know? You probably have to do what n0c said and edit your lilo.conf file. That's /etc/lilo.conf ...

Hmmm. What text editors does mandrake come preinstalled with? I like pico myself (uh oh) because for me and for my uses, pico is fine, nano is good to and it is very similar. VI and emacs are hard. So yeah, edit /etc/lilo.conf.

n0c I don't think windows is bootable at all, at least, as far as I understand. I think that maybe lilo is either set up wrong, or she/he somehow messed up the win2k partition. >>



I figured, but it is hard to tell from the original post. Without more information its like working blind though 🙂
 


<< heh 🙂
You're punctilious enough to hang out in #linux 😛 >>



Nah, I prefer the a-hole factor of the OpenBSD misc mailing list 😉
 
meh... remind me not to set foot in there then! 🙂 I'm glad I only have to deal with having my self-esteem battered in #linux every now and then.
 


<< meh... remind me not to set foot in there then! 🙂 I'm glad I only have to deal with having my self-esteem battered in #linux every now and then. >>



Im nice compared to some of them :&THORN;
 
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