[lug] Dual Boot with Windows XP

Wed Jul 3 20:06:41 MDT 2002

Hey if your smart enough to go dual boot
why not get rid of XP and go Win2k. I would
think in most cases your performance will be better and
you can piss on bill's policing the people.You can
use programs like window blinds and such to get that

>From: Glenn Murray <gmurray at Mines.EDU>
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>Hi,
>
>I have a similar "Dell Utility" partition on my 8200 Desktop.  Recent
>readers of the list will recall I was trying to make this a dual-boot
>machine with Linux on a second drive.  When I ran LILO to that partition I
>could no longer boot XP or Linux and I had to restore the partition with
>the usual dd command that you see in the How To's.
>
>By the way, I copied grub's first and second stage stuff to a floppy as
>per the grub docs and tried to run that, but it croaked, too.  I'm
>currently thinking that if you have XP on your primary drive and want to
>boot Linux from a second drive you have to use the XP boot loader.
>
>On the other hand, on several machines with Win2K and Linux on the same
>disk I had no problem writing LILO to the MBR.
>
>Good luck,
>Glenn Murray
>http://www.mines.edu/~gmurray
>
>
>On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, J. Wayde Allen wrote:
>
> > On 3 Jul 2002, Hugh Brown wrote:
> >
> > > The last 8M is because MS is braindead about its partitioning.
> > > I have never had any success using MS partitioning tools (at install
> > > time anyway) to claim that last 8M.  It just refuses to do it.
> >
> > That is interesting!
> >
> > > You aren't going to miss 32MB so I would leave it alone, shrink the XP
> > > down to 4-5gigs and then use the rest for linux.
> > >
> > > On my laptop, I have a "Dell Utility" partition listed as /dev/hda1 
>with
> > > a size of 32MB.
> > >
> > >    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> > > /dev/hda1             1         4     32098+  de  Dell Utility
> >
> > Makes sense, and it looks like I have the same partition.  Of course, 
>I'm
> > still wondering what this partition contains?  Any reason I should keep
> > it?
> >
> > - Wayde
> >   (wallen at lug.boulder.co.us)
> >
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thanks,
jd

jd at taproot.bz
http://www.taproot.bz

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