Thanks so much !It Works! I used a small Fat FS to move image to C:\

So nice to have Linux on my laptop Apache PHP Mysql all work like my
books say the will. :-)

Andy Fraser <andyfraser31@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<9hn732-lf1.ln1@news.linuxuser.org.uk>...
> In comp.os.linux.setup, steve henderson uttered these immortal words:
>
> > Beginner !! getting sick of CGYWIN need the real thing.
> >
> > I want to use XP's boot.ini to dual boot because it's a new laptop and
> > I don't want to screw up my Microsoft/ Sony support Need Help /
> > Ideas ???
> >
> > Instructions from Redhat.com
> >
> > 1) Boot into the Red Hat Linux installer, and install into the second
> > partition,
> > (I can do this OK!), I choose to let XP boot.ini handle the booting do
> > I just tell it not to use Lilo or grub?
>
> Install LILO or GRUB to the second partition rather than the MBR. /dev/hda2
> for the second primary partition.
>
> > 2) Boot into Linux
> >
> > How do I do a boot into Linux? Making a boot floppy won't work my
> > laptop only has a CD-RW. Can I just use the install CD to do this boot
> > or get one from internet somehow?
>
> Boot in rescue mode from your installation CDs if that's an option or get
> Knoppix or System Rescue CD and boot from either of those.
>
> > 3) Copy the boot image from the first sector of your boot partition.
> > You'll want to take 512 bytes of this partition once, and write it out
> > to a file called bootsect.lnx. The entry should look like:
> >
> > dd if=/dev/hdX of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
> >
> > How can this work if the XP partition is NTFS and could somone
> > (explain / tell me) the exact comand to use if I have XP on the first
> > partion and want SUSE 9 to start on the second partion.
>
> If you're using ext2 or ext3 you can get the file across to Windows using
> explore2fs. If you're on a network copy bootsect.lnx to a network share or
> burn it to a CD-RW and copy it from there.
>
> / = the root of the filing system.
>
> > 5. Move that file onto your c:\ drive and edit boot.ini, adding the
> > following line: c:\bootsect.lnx="Linux" (this is also easy enough to
> > do)
>
> Ok.