[PLUG] Dual Booting Linux, Windows XP

[Russell Evans]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 11:29:25 -0800 (PST)
"Robert Kopp" <iconoklastic at yahoo.com> wrote:

> OK, now reboot to Windows XP Professional 
> Copy A:\BOOTSECT.LNX to C:\ 
> Edit C:\boot.ini, you may need to modify the file
> property to change it. 
> Add "C:\BOOTSECT.LNX="RedHat 7.1" to C:\boot.ini and
> save. (May I call it "SuSE 9.0?")
> Reboot, now you should have the menu to choose which
> OS you want to boot into.
>  
> I think that's what I am going to try. The URL is 
> http://www.its.caltech.edu/~weikun/dualboot.htm and
> the author is weikun at caltech.edu.

I've used Window2000  before like this and it works. You can use any
name you want in the menu.

If you are installing SUSE 9.0, SuSE9.0 will resize ntfs, fat 32, and
fat 16 partitions to your specification at install, if you need to room
for Linux. No more hunting for someone with a Windows partition resizing
tool.

It will also install grub in such a way that you can boot windows. It
does this with out you having to know how, very friendly install. If you
are using kde, SuSE 9.0 will also set up links on your desktop so that
you click and mount you windows partition. This is read only access
however.

Being a linux user means you're a thinker, so you probably set
up a fat 32 partition when you were doing your install so that you could
drop files from linux into it for when you boot into windows. SuSE will
also pick up this partition and create the links on the kde desktop for
you

There is http://p-nand-q.com/download/rfstool.html if you don't want to
do the fat 32 partition and are using the default reiserfs file systems
SuSE installs. I haven't used this so don't know how will it works. 

Now you have a dual boot where you can easily get to files you need.

Thank you
Russell