Re: Dualboot: Strange behavior

2014-05-04 Thread Klaus
On 04/05/14 17:07, Klaus Jantzen wrote: > Hi, > > I successfully installed Windows 7 and Wheezy on my DELL laptop E6530. > > As I do not use WIN7 very often and really don't look at the GRUB menu > when starting my machine as Wheezy is supposed to start automatically, > I discovered only two days

Dualboot: Strange behavior

2014-05-04 Thread Klaus Jantzen
Hi, I successfully installed Windows 7 and Wheezy on my DELL laptop E6530. As I do not use WIN7 very often and really don't look at the GRUB menu when starting my machine as Wheezy is supposed to start automatically, I discovered only two days ago, that the WIN7-entry of the GRUB menu has "disap

Best partitioning with dualboot?

2006-04-10 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
Hi all, I've had some problem with my laptop harddisk. It is the partitioning that is part of the problem. I've had this sarge install for some years now, with dualboot with windoze. I "think" the partition was: /dev/hda1 primary bootwindoze xp /dev/hda4 e

Re: dualboot

2003-08-17 Thread paul
claus larsen declaimed: > hello. > > I have 2 computers with windows XP and redhat, booted with grub. > I want to install debian on both machines, booted with the existing grub. > How do i do that? 1. Figure out where your Debian installation will live, you need at least one dedicated partition.

dualboot

2003-08-17 Thread claus larsen
hello. I have 2 computers with windows XP and redhat, booted with grub. I want to install debian on both machines, booted with the existing grub. How do i do that? Regards Claus _ Get your spam-free, Linux email now --> http://www.Lin

dualboot xp debian with grub

2003-08-16 Thread claus larsen
hello. I have 2 computers with windows XP and redhat, booted with grub. I want to install debian on both machines, booted with the existing grub. How do i do that? Regards Claus _ Get your spam-free, Linux email now --> http://www.Lin

Re: dualboot linux and NT?

1999-01-24 Thread Jaymes Hill
>> Still, I'm not sure if NT 4.0 doesn't support FAT32. Its a nonissue for me since all I use partition 2 for is the pagefile.sys. > >Unless they introduced it in SP4, it doesn't. > Windows NT doesn't provide support for FAT32 out-of-the-box, but there are thrid-party programs that allow you to

Re: dualboot linux and NT?

1999-01-23 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 06:50:32PM -0500, Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote: > Hmmm ... I just checked and indeed my second partition is FAT16. > Still, I'm not sure if NT 4.0 doesn't support FAT32. Its a nonissue > for me since all I use partition 2 for is the pagefile.sys. Unless they introduced it in S

Re: dualboot linux and NT?

1999-01-22 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On 21 Jan 1999, Frederick Page wrote: > And I boot LILO with the NT-Bootmanager, also works fine. > > > partition-1 Windows-NT, 4.0-service pack 4, NTFS > > partition-2 FAT32, pagefile.sys, only used for virtual memory > > How does that work? I was always under the impression, that Fat32

Re: dualboot linux and NT?

1999-01-22 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Jean, you wrote on: 20 Jan 99 at 13:14 (received 21.01.99) about : _Re: dualboot linux and NT?_ >> That's exactly the problem, you need to have a FAT16-partition within the >> first 1024 cylinders of the first harddrive. The so-called C: (speaking in >> DOS-

Re: dualboot linux and NT?

1999-01-20 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On 19 Jan 1999, Frederick Page wrote: > you wrote on: 18 Jan 99 at 15:30 (received 19.01.99) > about : _Re: dualboot linux and NT?_ > > >WinNT can not boot directly from a slave disk, as far as I know. > > Well, it *can* boot from any disk and any partition, no matter

Re: dualboot linux and NT?

1999-01-20 Thread Frederick Page
Hi Tom, you wrote on: 18 Jan 99 at 15:30 (received 19.01.99) about : _Re: dualboot linux and NT?_ >WinNT can not boot directly from a slave disk, as far as I know. Well, it *can* boot from any disk and any partition, no matter what. >It needs to have it's boot files on

Re: dualboot linux and NT?

1999-01-19 Thread Rafael Kitover
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 05:38:06PM +, Daryl Williams wrote: > folks, > > i have a system running linux debian hamm with kernel 2.0.34. > this system has 2 IDE drives. linux is installed on the 1st disk > and boot using lilo. i have windows NT on the second disk which > is set as a slave IDE di

Re: dualboot linux and NT?

1999-01-18 Thread Tom Pfeifer
WinNT can not boot directly from a slave disk, as far as I know. It needs to have it's boot files on the active partition on the master drive. It is possible to have the bulk of NT on any drive, but the boot files must always be on the master drive. How did you install NT there to begin with? You

dualboot linux and NT?

1999-01-18 Thread Daryl Williams
folks, i have a system running linux debian hamm with kernel 2.0.34. this system has 2 IDE drives. linux is installed on the 1st disk and boot using lilo. i have windows NT on the second disk which is set as a slave IDE disk. when i try to boot windows NT from lilo i get the an error message from