[ale] Dual boot setup

[Jim Popovitch]

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 01:30 -0200, Gonzalo Seoane wrote:
> maby you want to run a virtual machine ,.. for windows :P ,... you can
> do this with vmware ,...

I already have a copy of win2k in a vm, thus the reason for my original
post specifying installing win2k in a dual-boot setup.  ;-)

> windows over write the media boot record , ( mbr ) and then you will
> not be able to boot linux ,.. or maby you can install windows ,... run
> a live cd linux and reinstall grub  ( grub-install ) mounting your HD
> on /boot/grub and make the reinstall ,.... its only a solution but i
> dont know if this works good 

I know that part, and have done it many times.  What is unclear to me is
does win2k have to be in the first partition.  I'd as Microsoft, but....

-Jim P.