discuss: Multibooting Win98/WinXP/Linux using NTLDR HOWTO
Subject:
Re: Re: Re: Multibooting Win98/WinXP/Linux using NTLDR HOWTO
From:
"Abu M. Muttalib" ####@####.####
Date:
30 Dec 2002 13:40:40 -0000
Message-Id: <20021230133759.29527.qmail@webmail30.rediffmail.com>
Hi..
As per ur mail I have started working on the same.
I will request u to put the same in the "In Progress List" of
HOWTOs.
Regards,
Abu.
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 Charles Curley wrote :
>On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 03:38:24PM -0000, Abu M. Muttalib
>wrote:
> > Hi..
> >
> > But that HowTo takes help of some othe utilities not provided
>by
> > any of the operating system in question and I want them not to
>use
> > any except the ones which are provided by these OSes.
>
>Ah, an important constraint. A good point for folks just learning
>to
>do this stuff on their own.
>
> >
> > Moreover I wanted to make this HowTo a detailed one covering
>the
> > details of Partioning the disk, installing the OSes, the
>order
> > being immaterial.
>
>I'd like to see that.
>
>I do wonder about the last, though. Any version of Windows
>derived
> from MS-DOS (and MS-DOS itself) stomps on the master boot record
>when
>you install it. This doesn't mean you can't install another OS
>before
>you install W9x. It just means you have to have a boot disk for
>whichever one you use to maintain your boot loader (e.g. lilo) so
>that
>you can add W9x and re-install the MBR. Also, DOS-derived
>versions of
>Windows must be in the first partition, and it must be a
>primary
>partition. For both of these reasons, it is easier to install
>them
>first, although certainly not mandatory.
>
> >
> > In the mean time I have also sent a mail to the concerned
> > person.
> >
> > What do u suggest?
>
>It looks like you have a more ambitious project in mind than
>either of
>the two I mentioned to you. Go for it! Try not to overlap too
>much so
>as to avoid duplication, and feel free to refer your readers to
>other
>documents such as those HOWTOs.
>
>If in the course of researching and writing your HOWTO, you
>find
>errors or obsolete information in the others, I encourage you to
>bring
>those problems to the attention of the authors.
>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Abu.
> >
> > On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 Charles Curley wrote :
> > >On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 03:31:18PM -0000, Abu M. Muttalib
> > >wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I am planning to write an HOWTO to Multibooting
> > > > Win98/WinXP/Linux
> > > > from NTLDR.
> > > >
> > > > This HOWTO will try to explain the steps required for
>building
> > >a
> > > > multibooting machine, which will have the potential to
>boot
> > > from
> > > > Windows 98, Windows XP and Linux 2.x using NTLDR off a
> > >single
> > > > large capacity IDE Hard Disk Drive.
> > > >
> > > > Please find whether this effort is not a duplication of
> > >effort.
> > > > I
> > > > have already completed on the framework and the first
> > >section.
> > >
> > >You might look at "NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO", by
>Bernd
> > >Reichert, ####@####.#### It was last updated in
>1997,
> > >and
> > >could probably be updated to include W2K and XP. It also
>could
> > >benefit
> > > from some editing.
> > >
> > >I do not see it on the list of orphan (unmaintained)
>documents
> > >at
> > >http://www.tldp.org/authors/unmaint.html, so you might
>contact
> > >the
> > >author and ask if you can contribute.
> > >
> > >Also see "Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO", Miroslav "Misko"
>Skoric,
> > ####@####.#### It is fairly recent (and also could use
>some
> > >editing). He lists some other documents you might look at.
> > >
> > >If you haven't already looked at the LDP Author Guide,
>please
> > >do
> > >so. http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/
>
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