Re: Is it possible to install Linux on this box?

From: MafProd (fake_at_no.where)
Date: 03/17/04

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    Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 07:21:53 +0100

    Jan Stedehouder wrote:
    > "houghi" <houghi@houghi.org.invalid> schreef in bericht
    > news:slrnc5egi2.2v6.houghi@penne.houghi.net...
    >
    >>Cerridwen wrote:
    >>
    >>>OK, I think I'm getting it - just one thing that's bothering me. If C is
    >>>NTFS (which it is) how can I set up a dual boot (C and D are partitions
    >
    > on
    >
    >>>the same drive) with Windows XP on C and Linux on D. Doesn't it have to
    >
    > be
    >
    >>>able to write to C to set-up the bootloader? Can't do that if the drive
    >
    > with
    >
    >>>the bootloader is NTFS, can it?
    >>
    >>The bootloader will not be on the harddrive. The suseinstalation will
    >>take care of the dualboot stuff.
    >
    > Yep, that's it. Simply put: a small part of the hard disk, the master boot
    > record, has the information about
    > bootable partitions. It is therefore neither part of C or D.
    >
    > The SuSe installation program will make a new MBR with information about
    > both Windows XP and SuSE.
    > When you start up, you see a screen with different options, Linux being the
    > standard option.
    >
    > The only problem is when you wish to get rid of SuSE and go back to the
    > original situation. You can remove the
    > partitions with Linux, but when you do the MBR is unchanged. Have to dig in
    > the books to see how to do that.
    > I use an older Windows98/ME boot disk and give fdisk /mbr at the dos-prompt.
    > This will make sure that you
    > can boot Windows XP again.
    >
    > Jan
    >
    >
    >>--
    >>houghi
    >>Quote correct (NL) http://www.briachons.org/art/quote/
    >>Zitiere richtig (DE) http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren
    >>Quote correctly (EN) http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
    >
    >
    >
    With Xp and w2k boot into the recovery console with the install cdrom
    and execute fixmbr or fixboot. For details on them use the help function
    of the recovery console. It's been a few years since i needed it. ;-)

    Greetz, MafProd.

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