how do i go about dual booting win2k pro and linux, or is it even possible?

Yes it is. The easy way is by using lilo to boot Win2k. Look the the lilo man page. Extra simple, just add an entry for the Win2k hard drive. And make sure lilo is on /dev/hda and not /dev/hda#. Where # is your linux partition number.

The hard way is to copy the linux bootsector from your linux drive and copy it onto the Win2k drive, then add a line o boot.ini to make it an option. I use this so I can have a neat little menu.

I'm at school now, so I can't get the procedure for you, but if you're interested I'll get it for you later.

If you look on http://www.deja.com/usenet you might be able to find the procedure someone who's done it. I think that's where I found out how to do it.

It's essentially just a dd command to make the bootsectir file, then copy that onto the Windows partition. Then edit boot.ini.

-John

Thanks John, but maybe i should have been more clear, i have a 3GB hard drive and i have win2k in the first 2gb. the remaining 1GB i left unpartitioned, where i want to add linux. Is it possible still?

I have worked with w2k but recently till i installed linux 6.0 when booting, w2k could not booting, only appear the sentence: NTLDR is missing press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart. Linux is still working well. Please advise how to rescure w2k. If not, how to use linux to get all the information in w2k

Nguyen

Boot from your win2k CD.
Do 'r' to repair and the 'c' to get into Repair Console mode.
Run FIXMBR (I think it's called) and that'll fix your win2k boot sector and get win2k back.
What it'll do to linux??

There are instructions on how to dual boot Windows 2000 with Linux using the Win2k boot loader at http://computing.net/howto/advanced/linuxnt/

To fix the mbr issue, install Linux, use the boot.exe utility from that page to get the mbr. Then use a dos floppy to fdisk /mbr the drive. After that you should be able to reboot into Win2k.

Mail me if you have issues.