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[Gnumed-devel] Dual-boot Windows XP / debian sarge
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J Busser |
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[Gnumed-devel] Dual-boot Windows XP / debian sarge |
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Sun, 18 Sep 2005 23:13:34 -0700 |
A few questions as I prepare to try this, if anyone is in a position to advise:
- if I only wish to run one version of Windows (namely Windows XP) on
a dual-boot drive, installing Sarge as the second OS, will I still
require to use one of lilo or grub and has either any key
shortcomings (I think debian uses grub)
- there exists free software bootpart which can permit the addition
of a linux partition to a Windows NT/2000/XP Multiboot menu although
I gather Lilo may be a dependency for this to work
http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm
- presumably Windows XP needs to be on the primary partition and
Linux boot/home/SWAP would be in an extended partition (as would any
additional partitions meant to be accessible to and used by Windows).
Would this arrangement prevent what I am told can be a problem of
Windows in cases wanting to "over-write the boot sector [Master Boot
Record?]" and/or is the section in the following URL, called
'Grabbing the boot sector" something that must be done for a proper
dual-boot system, but maybe only applies to multi-disk systems?
http://www.highlandsun.com/hyc/linuxboot.html
an older link (dual-booting Windows 2000) here
http://arul.telenet-systems.com/info/dualboot.php
- am I correct to think it may be desirable/useful to have a drive
partition that can be read and written-to by both Windows XP and
Debian, and is there a format type (FAT-16? FAT-32?) and position
requirement recommendation for such a partition? Probably it is best
(or only) created from Windows -- maybe after Linux is installed? --
using FDISK?
(apparently Linux can read NTFS but maybe can't write to it except to
overwrite files provided their size does not change)
- [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed install made easy - maybe, Sebastian Hilbert, 2005/09/17
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed install made easy - maybe, Elizabeth Dodd, 2005/09/17
- [Gnumed-devel] Re: GNUmed install made easy - maybe, Andreas Tille, 2005/09/17
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: GNUmed install made easy - maybe, Horst Herb, 2005/09/17
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: GNUmed install made easy - maybe, Karsten Hilbert, 2005/09/18
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: GNUmed install made easy - maybe, Horst Herb, 2005/09/18
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: GNUmed install made easy - maybe, Sebastian Hilbert, 2005/09/18
- [Gnumed-devel] strategies for machine & network account set-up (and klik?), J Busser, 2005/09/18
- [Gnumed-devel] Re: GNUmed install made easy - maybe, Andreas Tille, 2005/09/19
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: GNUmed install made easy - maybe, J Busser, 2005/09/20
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: GNUmed install made easy - maybe, Sebastian Hilbert, 2005/09/20