Dual booting with XP

[Warren Togami]

If XP RC1 is anything like Windows 2000, you should have no problem as long
as you follow these steps.

1) Do NOT format in Dynamic Disk mode.  This a proprietary Microsoft
partition scheme incompatible with everything.
2) Create a small (i.e. 16MB) primary partition of Linux type.  (i.e.
/dev/hda1)
3) Create a large primary partition for Windows NTFS.  (i.e. /dev/hda2)
4) Create Linux partition, then swap partition.  Either primary or logical
partitions are fine.  (i.e. /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda4)
5) Install Windows XP into the NTFS partition.
6) Install Linux.  /boot = /dev/hda1 and root = /dev/hda3
7) During LILO configuration, install LILO within the tiny /dev/hda1 with a
menu option for both Linux and Windows.
8) After first reboot, boot into either Windows or DOS, then use fdisk to
set the "active" partition to /dev/hda1.

If you followed these steps correctly, you should get a LILO boot menu at
startup letting you choose either Windows or Linux.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julio Gutierrez" <gutierrej001 at hawaii.rr.com>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 10:43 AM
Subject: [luau] Dual booting with XP


> I recently got Win XP RC1 and I was wondering if anyone has been able to
dual
> boot with linux or if anyone knows if it's possible to do so, I'm trying
to
> upgrade my Win98/RH 7.1 box but I'm in doubt maybe I won't be able to boot
> with LILO can anyone help?
> Also if anyone is interested in trying XP out let me know, I know is not
open
> source but is only a release candidate so no problem there
> TIA
> Julio