Dual Booting

dude_228 · 12-05-2002, 05:14 PM

i am wondering
if icould install MANDRAKE LINUX 9.0
and WINDOWS XP
too duel boot

i need ntfs partition for winxp
and
a fat32 for my data
and of course the linux partiton

how can i do so
i could have duel booting like this

do i have a fat32 primary partition
or its ok 2 be ntfs
thnx alot

born4linux · 12-05-2002, 05:30 PM

any will do. just install windows first on the 'first' partition and then mandrake. just make sure that an entry for windows will be added during the bootloader part of the mandrake installation.

Mandrake will even automatically mount windows during its bootup.

N_A_J_M · 12-05-2002, 05:31 PM

What i did was set up all my partitions that i will be needing first! that includes all the linux partitions and the windoze partitions using fdisk.
allowing for the linux partition to be the boot partition because linux knows what it is doing.
then have lilo as your boot loader

Code:

 Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4866 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1         6     48163+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2             7      1530  12241530    5  Extended
/dev/hda3          1531      2167   5116702+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda4          2168      4866  21679717+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda5             7       771   6144831   83  Linux
/dev/hda6           772      1275   4048348+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7          1276      1429   1236973+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda8          1430      1493    514048+  83  Linux
/dev/hda9          1494      1530    297171   83  Linux

and thats my partition table works fine, the good thing about manually setting up all your partitions is that then you know how it all fits together and if something does go wrong you have a head start in fixing it

Thymox · 12-05-2002, 05:35 PM

What an odd partition table you have! What did you use to do the partitiong? I would have expected it to be more like

Code:

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4866 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1         6     48163+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4             7      1530  12241530    5  Extended
/dev/hda5          1531      2167   5116702+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6          2168      4866  21679717+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda7             7       771   6144831   83  Linux
/dev/hda8           772      1275   4048348+  83  Linux
/dev/hda9          1276      1429   1236973+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda10         1430      1493    514048+  83  Linux
/dev/hda11         1494      1530    297171   83  Linux

dude_228 · 12-05-2002, 06:50 PM

do i use LILO or something else has a boot manager
and do i write to the mbr or first sector

DavidPhillips · 12-06-2002, 01:54 AM

looks ok to me

Code:

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 7297 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1      3122  25077433+   c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2          3123      7297  33535687+   f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5          3123      5211  16779861    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6          5212      6180   7783461   83  Linux
/dev/hda7          6181      7149   7783461   83  Linux
/dev/hda8          7150      7280   1052226   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda9          7281      7297    136521   83  Linux

DavidPhillips · 12-06-2002, 01:57 AM

DavidPhillips · 12-06-2002, 01:58 AM

boot=/dev/hda

in your lilo.conf will cause lilo to install to that drive