[TriLUG] Linux and WinXP on same drive

[Neil L. Little]

If you want to look at multi booting using the NT Bootloader give a look 
at this:

http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/2337

I recently configured a WinXP/FC4 system to dual boot. It helped a lot.
The big problem I had was using NTFS as the file system on the WinXP
side, which means I had to jump through a few hoops first.

CUL

Neil Little, WA4AZL    JARS Forever! ....er TRILUG too!


>On Friday 07 April 2006 00:09, Rodney Radford wrote:
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>>> If I remember the details correctly, you want WinXP and Linux on one
>>> physical drive (in different partitions), and Win98 on a second physical
>>> drive.  If that is correct, yes, you should be able to do that with grub.
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>You can also let the Windows XP boot loader kick things off, can't you?  
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>http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+NT-Loader.html
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>That's how I have been letting Windows and Linux share the same drive lately.  
>And I'd hope that the WinXP boot loader would be able to handle the 
>multi-boot between WinXP and Win98 well, but I've never done that.  
>Windows...bleh.
>
>---Tom
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