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- towsonu2003, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7why?
- absentmindedjwc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3damn.... GOOD TIMING!!!
I just installed Fedora on my windows machine... - schwit, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Let's have a tutorial where Linux is already there and you want to add Windows.
- DigitalDud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Come on, this is what Google is for.
- mcbutterbuns, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2How many times are we going to see "dual-boot windows and linux" stories on digg? Come on, the internet can't be that boring. If you don't know, google it.
- dylanrjones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just change "default 0" to (most likely) "default 4" in the /boot/grub/menu.lst
This just tells grub which line to default to when it starts up. If you don't know what I mean, just google it. I'm a complete noob and I figured it out without too much trouble. - OrangeTide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Is it 1998 all over again? Zzzzzzz
- bigtomrodney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is a poor article. Why the hell would you download System Rescue when any installer for linux worth anything already contains repartitioning tools? SUSE 10 is the example here - it stable and reliable tools, and infact can automatically partition for you. This is a tutorial writeen by someone who themself is new to the process - hardly an authority. This is incomplete and misleading.No digg.
And for the question above, most distributions have a tool for reinstalling Grub/Lilo after installing Windows in their setup. This Includes Mandriva, SUSE, Mepis......etc. If not you can boot with any distro into command line, chroot /mnt/your_linux_partition and run lilo -v as root. Similar instructions for Grub are available. It's just easier to do your windows installation first....or not at all. - btipling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I use grub, I'd like to see a tutorial that teaches me how to modify it so I can select which OS or partition is the default boot. Alo I love that little fat penguin in the set up screen.
- bigtomrodney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As mentioned any of the top 100 distros already contain partitioning software in their installers. Why buy/install additional software? Why prevent yourself from installing both OSes cleanly at the same time.
- jull1234, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've always loaded the windows partition with Grub/Lilo...
- 1ivewire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@EBFoxbat
It depends on what you are planning on using the system for. For a home machine to learn Linux on, 512MB is plenty. You can always repartition later if you find yourself needing more. - OrangeTide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've done it, it's not that hard to figure out. just install Linux according to the directions. but leave room on your drive for your windows later, or resize the partition if you forgot (gparted). Install Windoze and let it clobber your partitions and reorder them as it's wont to do. Boot your install/rescue CD again, drop to shell mount your / and fix up /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf or /boot/grub.conf .. you only need to do that if windows ordered your partitions (I hate this). Once it's done correctly do chroot /mnt (I assumed you mounted your system at /mnt). then run grub-install or lilo to update your MBR with the linux bootloader of your choice. Once Linux works again you can go online and look up how to configure the chainloader option in your bootloader so you can boot Windows.
- 1ivewire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And if you're really afraid of overwriting your MBR, or have a system recovery partition that you don't want to lose access to, you can dual boot Linux using the Windows bootloader. It ain't pretty, but it's easy.
http://www.tprthai.net/bootmgr.htm - astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1From Page:
At least one of the following scenarios exist and that is why you are here reading this tutorial;
* You have a new Serial HDD (SATA) with no software installed,
* You have a new Parallel HDD (PATA) with no software installed,
* You have a HDD with Windows already installed, or
* You have a HDD with Linux already installed.
Well I have Windows installed already and I want to install Linux... where is the tutorial?? - lordelric, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1gee yet another one of these tutorials
- EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Conveniently for me I'm about to do this. I'm going to install Debian on my WinXP system (as a dual boot) to learn Linux. I have a gig of RAM, should I make a 512MB swap partition? I've read to double your RAM up to 1/2 a gig and that there is no point to more than 512mb of swap space.
Can anyone informed make this definitive for me? - Arick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think it was written pretty well for a noob who wants to do more with there machine. Other methods metioned above will work but this one is free thats also helps for noobs who are not sure if they want to buy a piece of software they don't really need...
- jonnie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0In my opinion the best way to achieve this is to install Windows, run Partition Magic:
1. Resize windows partition
2. Add linux partition
3. Add linux swap partition
4. Apply
5. Reboot - Takes about 10 mins
Then you're ready to install
Linux takes over as the boot loaded. - Arick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think it was written pretty well for a noob who wants to do more with there machine. Other methods metioned above will work but this one is free that also helps for noobs who are not sure if they want to buy a piece of software they don't really need...
- majinboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Quote: "How many times are we going to see "dual-boot windows and linux" stories on digg? Come on, the internet can't be that boring. If you don't know, google it."
true, this article is quite boring...
Quote: "Let's have a tutorial where Linux is already there and you want to add Windows."
just boot of your Linux install cd and reinstall grub. or learn how to use ntldr .... - Salisme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Good article, but like so many of the others, it doesn't touch upon if you have that SATA drive set up as a RAID.
This has been one of the only articles I could find that was helpful: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FakeRaidHowto - gasparov, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Bad article,it really doesn't teach anything.
Ram*2=Swap=*****,at least on modern desktop systems - mib1969, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why bother setting up dual boot? Just leave your preferred OS (or company dictated OS) the way it is, download a free copy of VMware Player (http://www.vmware.com/download/player/) then go to VMware's VMTN site (http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/) and download any Linux distro you want to run in the Player.
- MatB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's also possible to run windows and linux at the same time, sharing cpu and resources.
check out Cooperative Linux (http://www.colinux.org). Very cool if you want to run server apps and you think cygwin is too bulky. With colinux you can run the distro of your choice.
The only drawback is device access which is limited, only networking and file system (via Samba). - miaow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0discdrake is a great partition manager imho. I don't know much about the other free managers, but that one was simple. Im not sure how to install it on its own though. Seems to be part of mandrake. I think it was PCLinux that allowed me to install it, but unfortunately I can't use pclinux now due to changing the resolution and ending up with a black screen.
anyhow for novices, discdrake seemed easy to me. I think ubuntu should use the same sort of installer. - tadelste, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Quote - Let's have a tutorial where Linux is already there and you want to add Windows.
That doesn't make sense because you'd need to use a Windows bootloader and most desktops don't have them. So you install windows first, which boots from its own partition and then add Linux which uses the MBR to direct the bootloader to the appropriate OS. If Linux it will go to /root and if Windows to sector 1 of the partition. - tuna1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Because Windows ***** with the MBR.
- ruimoura, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Fedora? I'm sorry for you ... All the reviews are saying that Fedora 5 kinda sucks ...
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