Annoying question: Installing W2K or WXP on a Linux-only box

Jason Stephenson jason at sigio.com
Tue Aug 9 21:38:00 EDT 2005


I wrote in error:
> Try this:
> 
> htt://www.sigio.com/articles/win2k.html

Yeearrggg! Left a p outta there!

http://www.sigio.com/articles/win2k.html

The key is to disconnect the "first" hard drive; hook the second hard 
drive up as the first; then install Windows. Windows wants to be on the 
first disk and will only install it's boot loader on the first drive.

After you get it faked out, you can easily use grub to make it boot.



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