[ale] Installing Linux w/ Existing NT partition

[Gary Maltzen]

And I do it just the opposite of Wandered Inn...

1) Install LILO in the Linux boot partition
2) copy the first sector of the boot partition to a file
   (dd if=/dev/hda2 of=bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1)
3) copy 'bootsect.lnx' to NT's C:\
4) add the following line to C:\BOOT.INI
   C:\bootsect.lnx="Linux"

The Linux boot image (vmlinuz or whatever)
must be entirely within the first 1024 cylinders
(or first 2**24 sectors) of your hard drive.
I usually make an 8 MB "/boot" partition
at the beginning of the drive.

Gary Maltzen, MCSE
 (Compuserve WINNT Sysop)

----- Original Message ----- 

>    I know this is a FAW somewhere, but I'm lazy today.
> I've got an NT box that I partitioned for a Linux partition.
> Without blowing away NT (which I would LOVE to do),
> how do I install Linux on the new partition and still be
> able to boot either NT or Linux? Should I put LILO in
> the MBR of the disk or should it go in the Linux
> partition?


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