On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Stephen Liu wrote:
Hi folks, I'm going to install FC5_32 and M$Win2000 on the same drive as a test ONLY. Installing M$Win2000 is only to satisfy the technical support of ASUS. Whenever I asked a question on the motherboard A8N-VM the only reply from them is "We don't support Linux" only "Win2000, XP, etc." as printed on the manual. I'm prepared to prepartition the HD first as follows. a 40G HD Partitions 1) for FC5_32 100M /boot 10G / 15G /home 2) for Win2000 10G 3) the remaining capactity for future use I wonder whether; 1) installing Win2000 first OR FC5_32 first
Installing Win2K first is recommended, although the other way around is also possible. Note that Win's boot disk and /boot must be primary partitions.
2) would their installation affect each another, i.e. the latter install OS will influence the first OS already installed.
The only thing you really need to worry about is the MBR. What I do on dual-boot machines is install the Linux boot loader in the boot record of the /boot partition. After the install and before first boot, I use the rescue disk to run fdisk and make /boot the active partition. That way, the disk's MBR is always under Windows's control, and the two OS's don't have to fight about it.
TIA B.R. SL
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