[wplug] Dual boot

[Eric C. Cooper]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 03:16:18PM -0500, Vanco, Don wrote:
> >-----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.

You can also boot from a Linux CD and (re)install GRUB or LILO
after the Windows install.

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Eric C. Cooper          e c c @ c m u . e d u