[wplug] Dual boot

[Vanco, Don]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org 
>[mailto:wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org] On 
>Behalf Of Robert E. Coutch
>Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 3:03 PM
>To: wplug at wplug.org
>Subject: [wplug] Dual boot
>
>
>Hi all,
>
>I'm thinking about making my system dual boot to run some 
>tests of Linux vs. 
>Windows.
>
>I'm currently running SuSE 9.1 and booting with grub.
>
>I have a free partition that I will set up for Windows 2000.
>
>Is there a way to install Win2k AFTER Linux and not have my 
>M.B.R. wiped out?
>Maybe a command line switch on the Win2k setup program?
	Not that I've seen.  Does the machine have a floppy?  Simplest
thing to do is to make a boot floppy.
I generally:
dd if=/dev/hda of=my_mbr bs=512 count=2 and place this somewhere safe 
then
install Winderz, get it all working
boot from floppy
dd if=my_mbr of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=2
then do the edits to grub for adding windoze

(MBR = 512k block size and it occupies the first 2 blocks)

...but there are surely other means.  I got lazy on one system and used
some free boot tool, but found it superfluous - but that's another
option.

Don