alcatel Posted March 10, 2005 Report Share Posted March 10, 2005 i already installed Winxp pro and mandrake 10.1 but now i wonna add another windows how is the best way to do this my idea was to install it on the preffered partition and then modify lilo should this work ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted March 10, 2005 Report Share Posted March 10, 2005 Windows will overwrite the bootloader for sure (and probably will give some other problems). Always install Windows first. That said: After the you install the other windows version, boot from the Mandrake CD, hit f1, type rescue and install lilo again. That should do it (hopefully) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted March 11, 2005 Report Share Posted March 11, 2005 To prevent windows from running amuck, always remove lilo prior to installing windows. What it doesn't see it won't bother. Then reinstall lilo after installing windows with the rescue mode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest phunky Posted March 20, 2005 Report Share Posted March 20, 2005 Yep installing Windows first is the way to start. I succeeded once In installing Windows 98, Windows XP, Redhat and SusE on 1 pc. Only worked if SuSE is installed final Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddmcse Posted March 20, 2005 Report Share Posted March 20, 2005 try using VMWARE as an alternative option to dual or triple booting .. all 3 operating systems can run at the same time, they all share hardware ,nic , drives,sound ..each guest OS gets it's own IP so all virtual machines are fully functional and network-able .windows has a version out called VirtualPC .each has a 30day demo attached screen shot shows MD10.1 as Host PC with Win2000 server as Guest 1 and WinXp as Guest2 .. Host PC is an older AMD 1.5 + 1g ram win2000 has been setup with 384 ram ..XP has 512 ram , you can select ram amounts for the guest PC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gosooner Posted March 20, 2005 Report Share Posted March 20, 2005 VMWARE is slow and test our patience. I tried VMWARE before, and it takes lot of time to run applications. I would prefer Partition Magic (Boot Magic, I mean). Boot Magic does good job. However you can do without these additional software, since we have grub or lilo to handle elegantly booting multi-OS. Only thing I will say is to FIRST make a rescue boot floppy from your existing Mandrake OS and then follow the guidelines given by devries, moderator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted March 21, 2005 Report Share Posted March 21, 2005 As a note, with any windows system, you will eventually have to reinstall windows in order to keep it running. So, "installing windows first" is not always going to work. Like I have already done for years, remove lilo, install windows, reinstall lilo. My linux installations survive for many windows installs! B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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