
07-24-01, 11:17 AM
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Dancing Hero
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Over there
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I've done this plenty of times before, Dave. The easiest setup I've found is to use NT's bootloader to manage the whole mess. The only problems that really come into play are potential 1024 cylinder limitations, but depending on how Red Hat reads your disk, this might not be a problem.
First off, FAT32 will need to be your first partition. You'll prolly want to make your Linux partitions after this point, and then make Win2K last. You can have up to four primary partitions on one disk, or three primary and one extended with numerous logical partitions on it. WinME *MUST* be the on the active primary partition, or it'll complain.
You'll also need this special program I have at home. I downloaded it following a chain of links from the FreeBSD FAQ, but the author's page seems to have been swept away, as was the file. It read/writes the MBR or the boot sector of a disk to/from a file. You can use this to write the Linux bootloader (NOT LILO!) to a 512 byte file, and then add that to the boot.ini file that Win2K will create. Just add another line under the boot options like this :
C:\mbr.dat = "Red Hat Linux"
I'll post more details once I can get the file uploaded.
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