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<H2><A NAME="s1">1.</A> <A HREF="Linux+WinNT.html#toc1">Introduction</A></H2>
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<P>Bill Wohler wrote in his v1.1 of The Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO:</P>
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<P><EM>"Due to hardware or software problems or user headroom, I pulled my
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hair out for several days trying to get both NT and Linux happily
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settled on my new HP Vectra PC at work."</EM></P>
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<P>I could say that was true in my case too, but you <B>really</B> have
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a way to make both Linux and Windows NT co-existing on the same
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machine and to switch from one of them to another.</P>
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<P><EM>"Under no circumstances run the Disk Administrator from NT 3.51 to
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format partitions. It asks if it can write a signature "which will
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cause absolutely no harm." When it did this, it hosed my partition
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table until fixed by steps 3 and 7 below. Because of these
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problems, I was limited to one FAT NT partition. Also remember that
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even if you do get the Disk Administrator to work, you'll want at
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least one small FAT partition to use as a staging area for
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exchanging files between Linux and NT until Linux has an NTFS
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filesystem."</EM></P>
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<P>Well, NT's Disk Administrator is sufficient tool to check what
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situation on your hard disk(s) you have, before and after you used
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an utility called Partition Magic by Power Quest. This utility
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might be needed to 'shrink' your NT (either NTFS or FAT) partition,
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in order to get some free space for your further Linux' partitions.
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(After a while, I recognized that 'shrinking' used partition
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might not be needed. Actually, if you start from 'scratch', it
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might be the best way to re-format your whole disk(s) using
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<B>FDISK</B> command. You should make a DOS boot floppy diskette
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where DOS commands FDISK and FORMAT have to be also copied.
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More details later...)</P>
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<P><EM>"I installed Linux first and then NT, but based on my experience, I
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might now be able to install NT first and then Linux."</EM></P>
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<P>Of course you all are able to install Windows NT first and after that
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Linux. We'll see how to do that and how to use <B>LILO</B> (<B>Li</B>nux
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<B>Lo</B>ader) to chose which operating system to boot. But, before that
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we'll see the procedure that Bill Wohler, the previous maintainer of
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this mini-HOWTO, has been using:</P>
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