Dual booting from xp's NTFS partition using LILO?

From: Raqueeb Hassan (raqueebh_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/20/04

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    Date: 20 May 2004 14:00:29 -0700

    Hello there!

    Hope everything is going great in planet earth! I just wanted to
    install slackware 9.1 as dual boot with winXP. I resized that ntfs
    partition with ntfsresize
    (mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html), now installing
    slackware on second partition won't much problem, but I was wondering
    where to put lilo? Should I put it on MBR or root partition of linux?
    Should lilo be able to read from that first ntfs/hpfs xp partition?
    Does XP uses the same boot loader of NT?

    And what if I copy using .... "dd if=/dev/hda6 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512
    count=1" and copy bootsect.lnx to the root of the windows partition
    and add c:\bootsect.lnx="Linux" to boot.ini? Will it overwrite the xp
    bootloader? The worse part, I've got a dell inspiron which does not
    have floppy. How do I use a usb mass storage device for copying that
    file to ntfs partition, if I have to?

    Good heavens! Too many queries .... I know, I know. Please give me
    some hints, at least. After all, the newsgroups makes my day even here
    in Congo!

    Thanks in advance.

    Raqueeb Hassan
    Congo (DRC)

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