topic Re: How to make a Linux box a dual boot machine? in Operating System - Linux

How to make a Linux box a dual boot machine?

somabho — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 07:25:01 GMT

Hi,

I have got a Linux box(Turbo Linux).I want to make it dual-boot with Windows.
Please let me know of any URLs where I can get information on how to make it.
I am new here & would apologise for such a silly question.

Re: How to make a Linux box a dual boot machine?

Charles Harris — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 07:34:44 GMT

Hello,

First of all you wil probably have to ditch the existing Linux installation unless you have a spare partition to put windows on. It's really quite a trivial proceedure, a quick google for win+linux+dual+boot+howto should get you all the info you require!

Good luck!

-=ChaZ=-

Re: How to make a Linux box a dual boot machine?

Dave Unverhau_1 — Wed, 28 Jul 2004 08:20:17 GMT

Hi,

A great spot to start for all your Linux How-To questions is the How-To index of the Linux documentation project:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html
There's a How-To here devoted to dual-booting Linux and Windows.

Best Regards,

Dave

Re: How to make a Linux box a dual boot machine?

Jan Sladky — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 05:27:43 GMT

hi,

whole description of your issue would be too long for this forum, so I suggest to try google.

briefly, HDD partitioning is needed, install both OS to places you want and configure boot loader

If you already have installed both OS and don't know how to make bootloader running with both os post the bootloader you have

br Jan

Re: How to make a Linux box a dual boot machine?

somabho — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 05:35:21 GMT

Hi,

Thanks Dave. I could find all that I wanted & now I have a dual-boot machine.

Thanks all of you for such response.

Regards