[wplug] Dual boot question

[Vanco, Donald]

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Doug Dominick wrote:
> Group,
> 
>     I would like to setup my workstation to dual boot RH Linux and
> W2000 Pro.  I am currently only running W2000 Pro.  I have a 73 GB
> drive with 3 partitions.  The first one is 8GB for the W2000 Pro OS,
> the second is 2GB for swap and the last partition uses the rest of
> the space for data.  I have plenty of room for Linux on the third
> partition.  I will resize that partition to leave 10GB of unallocated
> space.  My question here is; does Linux have to be loaded within a
> certain range of the beginning of the hard drive, or will it load
> properly if I follow the steps I listed above?  
	As long as you use a relatively current distro that can use GRUB as
the bootloader you'll be fine.  LILO has limitation with certain BIOSes

> My second question
> is; do I have to do anything special to take advantage of dual
> processors?  I appreciate any help you can offer.          
	Nope.  Well, other than find apps that actually use them!  The Quake
server multi-threads nicely across CPUs :)

Don