[CLUE-Tech] Help Dual-Boot my Notebook?

[Matthew Porter]

Thanks for the info.  I guess things would be similar on a notebook 
with WinME?  

A couple of things that make me nervous are that I don't have full-
fledged OS disks - just the "restore CD" from Compaq -- and the 
notebook also has some kind of funky "D" drive partition called 
"system save" (which seems to be used for hibernation mode, and 
who knows what else).

It would be nice to just blow away the Windows install and load 'er 
up with Debian, but we've all heard this song before: I need 
Windows access for work, compatibility with clients, etcetera and 
so forth...

 --Matt.


 On 13 Sep 2001, at 9:26, Brandon Harper wrote:  

> I'm not sure if this will be of much help or not, as its been awhile since
> I've done it (~2 years).
> 
> I wanted to dual-boot on my main workstation between Win2K Beta and
> Mandrake.  I used a Linux utility to actually move the partitions around,
> creating a small partition at the beginning of the disk to install Grub for
> multi-booting.  For the life of me, I don't remember what it was, but I'm
> pretty sure you can use DiskDrake to do this as well.  Once I moved the
> partition and had Mandrake installed, I ran the Win2K Recovery CD to fix
> Win2K so it wouldn't whine at me anymore, and it worked after that.
> 
> And yes, I really did use Mandrake.  :P
> 
> Anyhow, I'd export all of your registry keys, and copy C:\WINNT and
> C:\Documents And Settings somewhere before attempting to resize, as you'll
> probably need to run the Recovery Process (which can be done via booting off
> of the Win2K CD) once you've resized the partition, as Win2K will whine
> about the MBR, etc.
> 
> I hope that's of some help.
> 
> - Brandon
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