How do I install NT and Linux?

A. Linux has a boot manager called LILO (which is aseparate utility), and it will boot Linux on its native EXT2 partition, and anyother DOS/WIN bootimages residing on a FAT16 partition. It doesn't really carewhether it is dos/win95/NT, it will boot it. So as long as NT is installed on aFAT16 partition, there is no problem with LILO. Apparently the latest Linuxkernel has FAT32 support, so that may also be an option as well. Actually Linuxsupports FAT16 and can mount the FAT16 partition under its filesystem and haveall the DOS/WIN files visible if you want it to. An alternative to LILO is Grubwhich can be downloaded from http://www.uruk.org/~erich/grub .

There is something else called LOADIN, allowing linux to be installed as aMSDOS subdirectory in a DOS/WIN system. This allows Linux to be run as anapplication after you started DOS. This does not work with NT. This is as Linuxneeds to run in supervisor mode and not user mode. NT will not yield at all onthis. Windows 95 is the same but you can set loadlin to run in Dos mode whereit just sees Dos 7 and works fine.

Linux and NT will work even if Windows NT is on NTFS. You need to set inlinux fdisk for the Linux drive to be flagged bootable, not NT. Then installlilo and select to boot the linux partition and NT (which will say OS/2 inlilo). This way you can use both NT and Linux and still have a NTFS partition.Lilo must reside on the Linux root sector and not the MBR.

Another method is as follows:

You can learn more about it from the Linux documentation project and the FAQinside. It is mirrored in a large number of locations. This is one of themirrors ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/linux/LDP_WWW/linux.html.