Re: Dual boot linux and win2k

From: Russ Anderson (rja_at_sgi.com)
Date: 09/26/03 

Date: 26 Sep 2003 18:10:12 GMT

In article <8b4147ad.0309260701.38dcbd29@posting.google.com>,
 nishikantk@hotmail.com (Nishikant Karmali) writes:
>I have two drives (master and slave)
>Master drive is 40GB and has linux 8.0
>Slave drive is 60GB and would like to use to install win2k.
>(This drive is formatted fat32 - tried to use for WINE but found
>problems to run WINE software)
>Can some kind soul help me how I can install win2k without loosing
>linux?

Unplug the power cable to the master drive.
That will eliminate any possibility of that
drive getting trashed. Then install win2k
on the slave drive.

That is my standard procedure when I want to make
sure a drive does not get trashed. 

-- 
Russ Anderson  RAS group  SGI  rja@sgi.com

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