Re: Dual boot linux and win2k

From: Nishikant Karmali (nishikantk_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/28/03 

Date: 27 Sep 2003 21:12:30 -0700

rja@sgi.com (Russ Anderson) wrote in message news:<bl1ve4$9obv0$1@fido.engr.sgi.com>...
> 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.

Mr. Russ Anderson,
Thank you very much. I did as you suggested.With lttle efforts it worked.
Now I can reboot my pc with both linux and windows.

Thank you again.