[wellylug] April Meeting

[Klenner, Colin]

Thanks Mark,
The machine I have has successfully resisted Linux installs before and NT is
currently 'stable'. 

I would need to do considerable work from the base up before I changed it.
The entire first disk is NTFS dedicated, and only the second disk is
avaialble to native Linux. Also there are some other quirks with it that
make it a challenge. 

Hence my desire to set up my small machine first and isolate some aspects
from the bigger machine. I don't want lot's of downtime if I have to rebuild
NT from scratch - as inevitably happens whenever it is fiddled with.

The bigger machine is quite nice - an old tower case, quite heavy, complete
with 4 x 2Gb FW SCSI drives, 8mm DAT (2Gb), 4x4 CD-changer, 64MB RAM, 8MB
vRAM, USB (unused), etc.. The defeating bit has in the past been the video -
at least as far as I have been able to go.

I also have an old Optical drive - SCSI-1 interface if someone has an old
card. It is only 40Mb capacity but I would like to utilize it in the small
machine if I can. It can't be used in the large one as the SCSI bus does not
like it and the DAT cohabitinh for some reason I have been unable to
diagnose. I have about 20 optical disks so it could be useful for some work
I do.

Colin
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Henson [mailto:mark at incet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 9:21 AM
To: wellylug at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [wellylug] April Meeting


Hi Colin,

I have a method that works reasonably well for dual booting NT and Linux.

essentially I leave the master boot record of the drive untouched and
install
lilo on to the linux partition instead. this is easily done during the
linux
install process. (or can be done post install if nt has been installed
after
linux). then I set the linux partition as the active partition for boot
using
fdisk (linux or dos)

now I add an extra entry into lilo for NT and this works reliably for nt4 or
w2k

the reason I don't put lilo into the master boot is because I have found
that
nt4 can crash on boot when the master boot record has the boot loader
changed.
this way when nt boots it can't tell that it has other 'competing' operating
systems on the disk!!

cheers
Mark