Dual booting with XP

Julio C. Gutierrez gutierrej001 at hawaii.rr.com
Thu Jul 5 14:54:18 PDT 2001


What if I want to install WIN XP on 1 HD and LINUX on another HD do I still 
have to make the small partition for LILO? does XP support FAT ?
 TIA
Julio


On Thursday 05 July 2001 11:44 am, you wrote:
> 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.

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