On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Stephen Liu wrote:
Hi Matthew,
Tks for your advice.
1) installing Win2000 first OR FC5_32 first
Installing Win2K first is recommended, although the other way around
is
also possible.
Noted with tks.
Note that Win's boot disk and /boot must be primary
partitions.
Pls explain in detial. Tks.
I'll use FC5_32 rescue mode to partition the HD first
Briefly, a disk can have up to four "primary" partitions. One of these
may be "extended" and can contain several "logical" partitions. The
bootloaders (at least Windows) require that the OS disks be primary
partitions. So make your /boot partition and your C: drive primary. I
would make the rest of the disk an extended partition and leave it
unallocated.
When you run the installer, IIRC, you'll get a chance to delete all inux
partitions and use them to install FC5. You can select that, then select
the option to customize your partitions. Make sure your /boot is used for
/boot. The installer should make the rest of the disk an LVM volume. You
can accept the default layout (swap and one big / partition) or you can
split the / into subpartitions (e.g. a separate /home for your personal
files so you can reinstall without wiping them out).
When you get to the bootloader options, select customize and install the
bootloader in the boot reecord of your /boot partition.
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.
I'll tab /boot partition with "*" making it active. Tks.
B.R.
SL
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
