Windows may have to be on the first partition, but if that's the case what does it mean when they say the boot loader has to be loaded in the first 1024 bytes? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Holmes" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 7:21 AM Subject: Re: misc linux questions -- was: Re: A easier way to create cd'susing easy cd creator > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > You said you were told that you couldn't have two different file > systems on the same hard drive? Not true! I've done this for many > years. My current machine has the following layout. Note that /hda > is my primary IDE drive and /hdb is my second drive. The numbered > lists below will be the partitions on each. > > /hda: 1. NTFS for my Win2000 environment. > /hda: 2. FAT32 can be shared between Win2K and Linux > /hda: 3. ext3 for my primary Linux partition > /hda: 4. Linux Swap > /hdb: a 20 gig hard drive with two ext3 partitions. the first > partition is a small region I use for booting as lilo doesn't seem to > create a bootable image if I use /hda3. Strange situation but it > works. > > Bottom line here: You *CAN* have both linux and windows on the same > hard disk and they can be dual booted. One thing I would suspect > however, windows might have to be on the first partition on the drive > to work but linux doesn't care as much. > > HTH > - -- > HolmesGrown Solutions > The best solutions for the best price! > http://ld.net/?holmesgrown > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFCVUHwWSjv55S0LfERAxa7AKCmmcuK6Ii4BD3qLjkDzuMLOJ+JIQCaAmVp > RDiKrDyqjqFia6TKZYPRno8= > =J/dv > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
