[ale] dual booting RedHat7.2 and Win2k

[Jeff Rose]

I'm still pretty new to Linux so forgive my ignorance.  I have a boot 
floppy for RedHat.  So if Win2k overwrites the MBR I assume I will have 
to instruct grub to overwrite that.  I'm not sure how to do this.  By 
adding win2k to the grub conf, will I accomplish this or do I need to 
run grub or reinstall grub?  Will Win2k's boot program give me the 
option of booting into Linux?  I just want to know what I'm getting into 
before I begin.  Thanks for all the help.  

Mazukna, Thomas wrote:

>1. boot redhat and make a boot floppy for it.
>2. install win2k on you second hdd. it will overlay MBR on the master hdd
>3. boot redhat from floppy. add win2k to your lilo or grub conf. activate
>4. reboot & enjoy
>
>Tomas
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Rose [mailto:jojerose at mindspring.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 10:12 AM
>To: ale at ale.org
>Subject: [ale] dual booting RedHat7.2 and Win2k
>
>
>So I want to dual boot... I have RedHat7.2 installed already.  I have a 
>second drive I want to put Win2k on.  I've dual booted before but 
>installed Win2k first then installed SuSE on a second drive.  That was 
>easy enough.  But I don't want to install Win2k then install RedHat 
>again.  I have it running nicely and would like to keep it that way.  My 
>question is how can I now install Win2k on the second drive and be able 
>to boot it from grub?  I thought about removing the RedHat drive, moving 
>the second drive to the master ide connection, installing Win2k, then 
>moving it to the slave ide position and reattaching the RedHat drive 
>back to the master.  /*a lot of work just to get Windows going*/  Is 
>this possible? Will Win2k change my bios settings?  Does anyone know of 
>a better way to go about this?  Thanks for the input
>
>Jeff
>
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