[lug] installing linux with NT Dual boot

[Scott A. Herod]

Good luck.  I've never been able to install a version of Windows
on a box with another existing OS.  You will want the partition
the drive before installing NT but it sounds like that's done.
The last time I tried, I did manage to install 2000 in a partition
that had been created by Partition Commander.  I then installed
Linux on the rest of the drive.

Some issues, I think that Windows ( NT, 2000, and ME are the ones
that I have experience with ) will demand to be placed at the front
of the drive.  Then, RedHat's disk druid will insist that the
linux boot partition sits within the first 1024 cylinders of the drive
although this is no longer a requirement of the kernel.  So, check
your drives cylinder count and verify that the windows partition 
does not eat up too many cylinders.  ( The last 40G drive I played
with had 8M cylinders but don't rely on that size. )

If you do manage to get Windows installed it will probably blow away
your existing boot loader.  Make sure that you have a floppy that 
you can use to boot linux.  You can create one when you install linux

If you have any problems, feel free to contact me.

Scott

Elangovan Subbiah wrote:
> 
> Hi
> I have installed linux on the only IDE (15GB), intel PIII 800MHz.  I
> already have a FAT32 partition of around 5GB on this disk.  The system
> can boot from the hard drive into linux.  I now need to install NT on
> this ide so that i can dual boot.
> 
> What are the things i need to consider and plan.  Please reply in
> detail.
> 
> Thanks
> Elango