Hi everyone,

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?

Thanks in advance

on two lappie (one with vista and the other with win7) I just installed it on the MBR (default during install) and forgot about it.

I prefer to install it in Slackware's root partition (which you should be bootable, of course), could be safer.

In my case:
I have W7 on sda1 and sda2, sda3 is used for swap.

I've dual-booted many distros with XP, and always put the distro's lilo or grub in the MBR. Never any problems, or maybe I've just been lucky?

I don't dual boot any longer but I used to put it in the MBR while dual booting with Windows and other distros.

Hi,

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.

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Good to know, thanks, onebuck!

Thanks to everyone who answered. I'm going to post my second question on another thread. The answers were really useful.

Please read this thread :
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...itions-361303/

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