On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 11:25:42AM +0100, Peter Schnebel wrote: | hi | | On Monday 05 March 2001 09:35, Subramaniam Aiyer (CTS) wrote: | > hi, | > i am trying to install debian linux on my office computer which has | > only one hard disk i.e no partitions | | whats that supposed to mean ?? have you got only one big partition ?? | | > can i go ahead with the insatllation or should i downgrade to windowsNT. | > one of my friend who was installing red hat had to first downgrade to | > NT. Also, the sysadmin gave some reason of file systems. can anybody please | > explain further? | > thanx, | > INDSpeedFreak | | the only problem i was facing in this constellation was the win2k | bootmanager... | don't ( i mean it ) install lilo in the mbr... you definetly will run into | problems with win2k...
I agree. But I offer an easier solution -- use grub. It is a piece of cake to dual boot linux and win2k with and even has a Debian package. When I had to install linux on the extra partition of a win2k box at work I couldn't get lilo to chainload windows. Then I tried grub and it took no time at all. Much easier. -D
