Re: Install Win XP over Linux

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:03:22 -0700, john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Apr 15, 12:40 pm, Andrew Gideon <c172driv...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:43:00 -0700, j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Now I want to install Win XP (OEM version) on /dev/hda1. It is newly
purchased and hasn't been installed elswhere.

Starting from scratch, perhaps you'd be better off with Xen or VMWare.

- Andrew

No, I need real Windows XP Home edition to be compatible with my
audience. If a procedure works on my partition it should work on theirs.

I managed to solve the windows problem, but my solution was a bit goofy.
First I went into the bios
and reset the bios settings to "safe". Then I tried installing old
reliable Win 2000. Win 2000 detected a faulty mbr and obligingly fixed
it when requested. XP lacked this routine. Then after going through all
the install steps for Win 2000 I rebooted the Win XP CD and went through
its routines, including deleting the partition, recreating it,
formatting it with ntfs and so on.

This gave me a functioning MS XP partition that starts automatically at
boot time. To start my Linux partition I initially used the install cdr,
then I modified Lilo to write to a floppy, formatted a floppy and ran
Lilo. Now I can toggle between /hda1 (XP) and /hda2 (Slack Linux) by
booting either with or without the floppy.

There are directions going back some years about creating a true dual
boot with lilo and without the floppy usage. Are these current enough to
be believed?

Thanks to all who responded.

John C.

Use Grub, it just works


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Tayo'y Mga Pinoy
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