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question: how to go about installing win2k (dual booting) AFTER red hat 7.3 has been installed?

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palidor

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i've got a laptop with a 30 gig hd. i use red hat for most functions, but as we all know, linux can't do -everything-.. so anyways, i have about 25 gig of unpartitioned, unused space.

i need to figure out how to go about installing win2k now. i have searched google up & down for guides on dual booting, but they all say you have to have win2k installed first. at this link, http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/install-guide/s1-x86-dualboot-install.html, red hat suggests that you use cfdisk to partition the unused space and then go about installing windows. now i might be retarded, but cfdisk isn't on my system, and it isn't anywhere in the package manager.

edit: forgot to add that i am using the grub boot loader, and would like to keep it that way

can anyone please help me out?
 
unless you're planning to use BootManager apps such as "Bootmagic"
i dunno how.. i always installed win2k/xp/9x first and then the linux comes last...

if you set GRUB to boot from MBR (master boot record) then you can't use NTFS, but if you set GRUB to boot from first boot partition ( / or /boot )
then you can put your NTFS partition at the beginning of your harddrive ( coz' NTFS or any other primary DOS partition require 8 MB at the beginning of the free space in your hard drive to store boot information ). anyway u choose to go. set the GRUB on linux or W2K (whichever comes first !! in your hdd) to set the other partition bootable...


anyway just use Partitionmagic 7 and bootmagic as your bootloader.. (it'll make all the things i've stated above easier)

e-mail me at dimzie@telkom.net if u had any more questions..
i'll try my best to help 🙂
 
I tried to post this last night, but wouldn't ya know my ISP took a $h1t

Anyways, you can do it if you're familiar with a boot disk or if you can get window's boot loader to do it for you, but I've never gotten that to work and didn't have time to troubleshoot. Do a google search for windows 2000 boot loader linux and you should get something about as good as any help I could muster.

As for the boot disk, you go ahead and install windows on some space and then you load up your boot disk, which you've previously made sure worked. You can then re-run grub and install on the MBR with a command like setup (hd0) Do a man grub to get the intricacies out. You'll need to add a line to the bootloader to make it boot windows, but that's pretty easy.

Google is your friend.
 
Yep, didn't see it before, but I have to veto that as well. I have NTFS for XP on my laptop and have linux running as the last 4 gig of a 30 gig hd without extended partitions using grub as the boot manager, and I did have it on my destop with XP on NTFS, but that had seperate drives.

One thing I wasn't expecting is that in the grub config I (had to?) add chainloader +1 to the end of the grub.conf file... I think... I'm not on the lappy now.
 
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