You can make your laptop dual boot system in which you can also install windows and linux in asingle hard disk. To make a computer or laptop you don't need to upgrade you BIOS, simple you have just follow these steps :

1. First Install Windows 9.x/NT/2000/XP any one with having atleast 1.2 GB space unformatted. You should leave it as Non Dos.

2. After Installing Windows , then You put Linux Software CD 1 (Preferably Red Hat ) and Boot the machine from the CD-Drive.

3. Follow the instructions. At the time of partitions click on the Non Partitioned space and Install root partition on that .
Ensure that the packages you are trying to Install does not exceed the partition size. Otherwise the partition might crash.

4. In the end the Installation will ask you to specify Wether You want Dual Boot to be active or nor . Select Yes.

5. Configure LILO with name of your Choice. then the Installation will ask you to restart the machine.

6. When you restart you will see that you get Two options at the time of booting.

1. Dos
2. Linux

Answered by .... ..... , an ibibo Master, at 8:51 AM on July 18, 2008

You can make your laptop dual boot system in which you can also install windows and linux in asingle hard disk. To make a computer or laptop you don't need to upgrade you BIOS, simple you have just follow these steps :

1. First Install Windows 9.x/NT/2000/XP any one with having atleast 1.2 GB space unformatted. You should leave it as Non Dos.

2. After Installing Windows , then You put Linux Software CD 1 (Preferably Red Hat ) and Boot the machine from the CD-Drive.

3. Follow the instructions. At the time of partitions click on the Non Partitioned space and Install root partition on that .
Ensure that the packages you are trying to Install does not exceed the partition size. Otherwise the partition might crash.

4. In the end the Installation will ask you to specify Wether You want Dual Boot to be active or nor . Select Yes.

5. Configure LILO with name of your Choice. then the Installation will ask you to restart the machine.

6. When you restart you will see that you get Two options at the time of booting.

1. Dos
2. Linux

Answered by singhsaurabh , an ibibo Master, at 2:01 PM on July 17, 2008

You can make your laptop dual boot system in which you can also install windows and linux in asingle hard disk. To make a computer or laptop you don't need to upgrade you BIOS, simple you have just follow these steps :

1. First Install Windows 9.x/NT/2000/XP any one with having atleast 1.2 GB space unformatted. You should leave it as Non Dos.

2. After Installing Windows , then You put Linux Software CD 1 (Preferably Red Hat ) and Boot the machine from the CD-Drive.

3. Follow the instructions. At the time of partitions click on the Non Partitioned space and Install root partition on that .
Ensure that the packages you are trying to Install does not exceed the partition size. Otherwise the partition might crash.

4. In the end the Installation will ask you to specify Wether You want Dual Boot to be active or nor . Select Yes.

5. Configure LILO with name of your Choice. then the Installation will ask you to restart the machine.

6. When you restart you will see that you get Two options at the time of booting.

1. Dos
2. Linux

Answered by Ni .. , an ibibo Master, at 9:31 PM on July 13, 2008

You can make your laptop dual boot system in which you can also install windows and linux in asingle hard disk. To make a computer or laptop you don't need to upgrade you BIOS, simple you have just follow these steps :

1. First Install Windows 9.x/NT/2000/XP any one with having atleast 1.2 GB space unformatted. You should leave it as Non Dos.

2. After Installing Windows , then You put Linux Software CD 1 (Preferably Red Hat ) and Boot the machine from the CD-Drive.

3. Follow the instructions. At the time of partitions click on the Non Partitioned space and Install root partition on that .
Ensure that the packages you are trying to Install does not exceed the partition size. Otherwise the partition might crash.

4. In the end the Installation will ask you to specify Wether You want Dual Boot to be active or nor . Select Yes.

5. Configure LILO with name of your Choice. then the Installation will ask you to restart the machine.

6. When you restart you will see that you get Two options at the time of booting.

1. Dos
2. Linux

Answered by Yash , an ibibo Master, at 12:33 AM on July 09, 2008

well, You can make your laptop dual boot system in which you can also install windows and linux in asingle hard disk. To make a computer or laptop you don't need to upgrade you BIOS, simple you have just follow these steps :

1. First Install Windows 9.x/NT/2000/XP any one with having atleast 1.2 GB space unformatted. You should leave it as Non Dos.

2. After Installing Windows , then You put Linux Software CD 1 (Preferably Red Hat ) and Boot the machine from the CD-Drive.

3. Follow the instructions. At the time of partitions click on the Non Partitioned space and Install root partition on that .
Ensure that the packages you are trying to Install does not exceed the partition size. Otherwise the partition might crash.

4. In the end the Installation will ask you to specify Wether You want Dual Boot to be active or nor . Select Yes.

5. Configure LILO with name of your Choice. then the Installation will ask you to restart the machine.

6. When you restart you will see that you get Two options at the time of booting.

1. Dos
2. Linux

Answered by Raksha , an ibibo Master, at 9:12 AM on July 03, 2008

You can make your laptop dual boot system in which you can also install windows and linux in asingle hard disk. To make a computer or laptop you don't need to upgrade you BIOS, simple you have just follow these steps :

1. First Install Windows 9.x/NT/2000/XP any one with having atleast 1.2 GB space unformatted. You should leave it as Non Dos.

2. After Installing Windows , then You put Linux Software CD 1 (Preferably Red Hat ) and Boot the machine from the CD-Drive.

3. Follow the instructions. At the time of partitions click on the Non Partitioned space and Install root partition on that .
Ensure that the packages you are trying to Install does not exceed the partition size. Otherwise the partition might crash.

4. In the end the Installation will ask you to specify Wether You want Dual Boot to be active or nor . Select Yes.

5. Configure LILO with name of your Choice. then the Installation will ask you to restart the machine.

6. When you restart you will see that you get Two options at the time of booting.

1. Dos
2. Linux

Select the partition of your choice and enjoy dual booting.

For more visit :

http://www.computing.net/ unix/wwwboard/forum/5844.html

Answered by: Romi at 10:06 AM on June 25, 2008 | Romi's Q&A | Report Abuse
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You can make your laptop dual boot system in which you can also install windows and linux in asingle hard disk. To make a computer or laptop you don't need to upgrade you BIOS, simple you have just follow these steps :

1. First Install Windows 9.x/NT/2000/XP any one with having atleast 1.2 GB space unformatted. You should leave it as Non Dos.
2. After Installing Windows , then You put Linux Software CD 1 (Preferably Red Hat ) and Boot the machine from the CD-Drive.
3. Follow the instructions. At the time of partitions click on the Non Partitioned space and Install root partition on that .
Ensure that the packages you are trying to Install does not exceed the partition size. Otherwise the partition might crash.
4. In the end the Installation will ask you to specify Wether You want Dual Boot to be active or nor . Select Yes.
5. Configure LILO with name of your Choice. then the Installation will ask you to restart the machine.
6. When you restart you will see that you get Two options at the time of booting.

1. Dos
2. Linux
Select the partition of your choice and enjoy dual booting.

Please visit the source site for more information:

http://www.com puting.net/unix/wwwboard/forum /5844.html

Answered by Gyan Singh , an ibibo Master, at 8:09 PM on June 27, 2008

well, You can make your laptop dual boot system in which you can also install windows and linux in asingle hard disk. To make a computer or laptop you don't need to upgrade you BIOS, simple you have just follow these steps :

1. First Install Windows 9.x/NT/2000/XP any one with having atleast 1.2 GB space unformatted. You should leave it as Non Dos.

2. After Installing Windows , then You put Linux Software CD 1 (Preferably Red Hat ) and Boot the machine from the CD-Drive.

3. Follow the instructions. At the time of partitions click on the Non Partitioned space and Install root partition on that .
Ensure that the packages you are trying to Install does not exceed the partition size. Otherwise the partition might crash.

4. In the end the Installation will ask you to specify Wether You want Dual Boot to be active or nor . Select Yes.

5. Configure LILO with name of your Choice. then the Installation will ask you to restart the machine.

6. When you restart you will see that you get Two options at the time of booting.

1. Dos
2. Linux

Select the partition of your choice and enjoy dual booting.

For more visit :

http://www.computing.net/ unix/wwwboard/forum/5844.html

Answered by Romi , an ibibo Master, at 10:06 AM on June 25, 2008

You can make your laptop dual boot system in which you can also install windows and linux in asingle hard disk. To make a computer or laptop you don't need to upgrade you BIOS, simple you have just follow these steps :

1. First Install Windows 9.x/NT/2000/XP any one with having atleast 1.2 GB space unformatted. You should leave it as Non Dos.
2. After Installing Windows , then You put Linux Software CD 1 (Preferably Red Hat ) and Boot the machine from the CD-Drive.
3. Follow the instructions. At the time of partitions click on the Non Partitioned space and Install root partition on that .
Ensure that the packages you are trying to Install does not exceed the partition size. Otherwise the partition might crash.
4. In the end the Installation will ask you to specify Wether You want Dual Boot to be active or nor . Select Yes.
5. Configure LILO with name of your Choice. then the Installation will ask you to restart the machine.
6. When you restart you will see that you get Two options at the time of booting.

1. Dos
2. Linux
Select the partition of your choice and enjoy dual booting.

Please visit the source site for more information:

http://www.com puting.net/unix/wwwboard/forum /5844.html

Answered by KRATOS , an ibibo Citizen, at 3:39 PM on June 21, 2008

You have Linux already installed but want to dual boot it with Vista on the same hard drive
We'll dual-boot Ubuntu 8.04 with Vista. With Ubuntu already

installed and owning the entire drive, we'll use the Ubuntu Live CD to shrink the Linux partition to create space for the Vista install.

Vista's MBR will overwrite GRUB during installation, so we'll go through two scenarios. First - reinstall GRUB to the Linux partition and use EasyBCD to modify the Vista bootloader so that it will boot Ubuntu. Second, reinstall GRUB to the MBR and configure it boot both Ubuntu and Vista

and If you're installing the OSs to separate drives you may not have to repartition anything. However, if one of the drives carries data that you want to keep you will need to shrink the data-carrying partition (assuming it takes up the entire drive) to make room for another partition into which you would install the new OS. Otherwise the OS installation will overwrite the existing partition and you will lose all the data.

If Linux is the OS on the first drive and you install Vista on the second drive, Vista will still overwrite the Linux bootloader. So when you reinstall GRUB, you'll need to tell it where to find the Linux partition (on drive x, partition x). BTW, we're doing another step-by-step featuring dual-booting of OSs on different drives. It will be up shortly.
source

apcmag.com /how_to_dualboot_vist a_ with_linux_vista_installed_fir st.ht m

Answered by Madhurima , an ibibo Master, at 1:44 PM on June 21, 2008