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<H2><A NAME="s5">5.</A> <A HREF="Linux+WinNT.html#toc5">How to install WINDOWS 2000 <EM>besides</EM> LINUX and WINDOWS 98</A></H2>
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<P><EM>Notice: When I say 'beside Linux and Windows 98', I mean of
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Linux and Windows 98 that <B>already</B> work together, so they were
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installed earlier, <B>before</B> we made a decision to add
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Windows 2000. One of the machines I use at work, has both Linux
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and Win98. They both load from under LILO menu.</EM> </P>
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<P>Actually, it is not a very big problem to install Windows 2000 on a
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computer where another Windows is running. In my case, it is Windows 98
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so I just put 2000's CD into the drive. After it recognized that an
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'older' version of Windows was running on my machine, it offered me
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either to upgrade it to 2000 or to install W2k as the 'clean'
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installation. At first, I tried to upgrade my Windows 98 to W2k, in
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order to get a very similar combination that I have at home (described
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in previous chapter). But, some hardware and software compatibility
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issues were reported (I mean, some of my components wouldn't stay
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fully operational if I just did an upgrade).</P>
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<P>When saw that, I considered to try the 'fresh' installation of W2k,
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<EM>beside</EM> Win98 and Linux. Happily, I recently installed another
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HD into the box, so I did not need to handle the first disk, where Win98
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and Linux were living. Actually, the main reason to add the second disk
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was that the first one got almost full. If I wanted to install the third
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operating system on the first disk, I'd have to clean it well. So, when
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W2k's Setup asked for the location to be installed, I told it to use
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the second disk, repartition it and format it as the NTFS file system
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(just to mention that my Win98 was FAT32 and Linux was ext2).</P>
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<P>After an hour or so, W2k's installation was finished. During the setup
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procedure, it re-started the system a couple of times. When it was
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about to do that for the first time, I was curious if it would re-write
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the MBR, where LILO resides (actually, in the previous chapter, I have
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mentioned that W2k's installation was likely to re-write the MBR).
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Interestingly, it did not do that this time, so I continued to see
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'LILO boot:' on the screen. But, a *new* thing has appeared after LILO:
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the Windows 2000 boot loader, that in turn offered not only to load W2k but
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a 'Windows' (ie. my old Win98) too.</P>
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<P>Well, depending on which operating system I like to start, the procedure
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might slightly differ, but it is easy. No problem at all. For example:</P>
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<LI>If I like to load my Linux, then LILO boot is the "cross-road".
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At this point, the 'linux' entry should either be chosen or set as
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default in <CODE>/etc/lilo.conf</CODE>;
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<LI>If I like to load Windows, then the other entry under LILO
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boot should either be chosen or set to be default. After it is done,
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Windows 2000 boot loader should appear on the screen. On that point,
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I have two choices: W2k and W98. The rest is easy, both Windozes
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start from there happily.
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