Dual booting from xp's NTFS partition using LILO or xp boot-loader?

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Raqueeb Hassan

Hello there!

Hope everything is going great in planet earth! I just wanted to
install slackware 9.1 as dual boot with winXP. I resized that ntfs
partition with ntfsresize
(mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html), now installing
slackware on second partition won't much problem, but I was wondering
where to put lilo? Should I put it on MBR or root partition of linux?
Should lilo be able to read from that first ntfs/hpfs xp partition?
Does XP uses the same boot loader of NT?

And what if I copy using .... "dd if=/dev/hda6 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512
count=1" and copy bootsect.lnx to the root of the windows partition
and add c:\bootsect.lnx="Linux" to boot.ini? Will it overwrite the xp
bootloader? The worse part, I've got a dell inspiron which does not
have floppy. How do I use a usb mass storage device for copying that
file to ntfs partition, if I have to?

Good heavens! Too many queries .... I know, I know. Please give me
some hints, at least. After all, the newsgroups makes my day even here
in Congo!

Thanks in advance.

Raqueeb Hassan
Congo (DRC)
 
Dual Boot Linux and Windows
http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/linux/story/0,24330,3397093,00.html

Dual-Boot Linux and Windows 2000/Windows XP
http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html

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| Hello there!
|
| Hope everything is going great in planet earth! I just wanted to
| install slackware 9.1 as dual boot with winXP. I resized that ntfs
| partition with ntfsresize
| (mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html), now installing
| slackware on second partition won't much problem, but I was wondering
| where to put lilo? Should I put it on MBR or root partition of linux?
| Should lilo be able to read from that first ntfs/hpfs xp partition?
| Does XP uses the same boot loader of NT?
|
| And what if I copy using .... "dd if=/dev/hda6 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512
| count=1" and copy bootsect.lnx to the root of the windows partition
| and add c:\bootsect.lnx="Linux" to boot.ini? Will it overwrite the xp
| bootloader? The worse part, I've got a dell inspiron which does not
| have floppy. How do I use a usb mass storage device for copying that
| file to ntfs partition, if I have to?
|
| Good heavens! Too many queries .... I know, I know. Please give me
| some hints, at least. After all, the newsgroups makes my day even here
| in Congo!
|
| Thanks in advance.
|
| Raqueeb Hassan
| Congo (DRC)
 
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