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I had an old laptop which ran Slackware-current, but it died. As a replacement I got a great Toshiba Qosmio laptop with Win7 SP1.
Now 13.37 is nearing, and I would like to install it on a dual-boot setting with Win7.
In my other laptop, I dual-booted it with XP SP3, and I remember partitioning the HDD, then putting LILO on the first sector of the root partition (instead of putting it on the boot sector).
Now, I have to dual boot it with Win7 and therefore I ask: What is the best strategy for dual-booting? Are there some caveats that I need to be aware of?
I'll add that if you plan on using the current hard disk then use the Win/7 tools to manage the disk. You should use the Microsoft disk management tools to defrag first then re-size to allow your Slackware Gnu/Linux install.
Do a LQ Search as this subject has been covered many times.
Last edited by onebuck; 04-07-2011 at 12:40 PM.
Reason: typo
I'll add that if you plan on using the current hard diak then use the Win/7 tools to manage the disk. You should use the Microsoft disk management tools to defrag first then resize to allow your Slackware Gnu/Linux install.
Many people do not realize, that they may boot the wrong kernel when using lilo.
The best solution like mentioned there is chainloading, even for linux partitions, when having more than one Linux installation on your hdd
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