Need Advice..on patitioning scheme..

[sujithtom]

Make 6 partitions:
Partition 1: Win XP
Partition 2: Red Hat
Partition 3: Files of Win Xp
Partition 4: Files of Red Hat
Partition 5: Common Files (Like .htm files and movie files)
Partition 6: For the future OS. Use for anything you like for now.

 

[whistler]

@ sujithtom: buddy the question now is not how to partition but how to password protect the entry in boot.ini..

anyways thnx foe the sugesstion...
(but really asking u suggested a mess on a HDD...) "No offence"

 

[GNUrag]

Re: hmm...

what do u people say about adding Dos to boot.ini and using "loadlin" will it do the trick 4 me?

Okay, do it.... add an entry of DOS and in the autoexec.bat file add the reference of loadlin..... autoexec.bat is anyway not executed by your windows XP startup routine...

 

[whistler]

yes

me also think likewise..
anyone else care to comment?

 

[tuxfan]

Thanks whistler for the link. It is really useful. I think what GNUrag said is right.

 

[whistler]

hehe

@tuxfan:no probs mate...felt nice to help u!!

"BUT HOW TO PASSWORD PROTECT THIS BOOT.INI"

 

[GNUrag]

Re: hehe

BUT HOW TO PASSWORD PROTECT THIS BOOT.INI"

You can't password protect entries in BOOT.INI coz there's no such thing called as password protection in NT boot loader.... what you can do is add the password protection in GRUB configuration file... or be bold and install grub onto master boot record...

 

[whistler]

ok

ok got it....gav up the thing....what i have done is, installed the GRUB on dirst sector of /boot.
and added the entry in boot.ini..
everything id fine till now....i can select "linux" from boot.ini and boot linux
quiet peacefully..
now i have done a mistake and want to fix it...
actually i got the idead if protecting the linux boot through GRUB only after the process of boot.ini...
mow can anyone tell me how to do it manually in grub.conf?
dont tell me to run cd1 to repair grub... i dont have cd's and will also not burn my iso's

ANY TAKERS?

 

[tuxfan]

now i have done a mistake and want to fix it...
actually i got the idead if protecting the linux boot through GRUB only after the process of boot.ini...
mow can anyone tell me how to do it manually in grub.conf?
dont tell me to run cd1 to repair grub... i dont have cd's and will also not burn my iso's

Huh?? I couldn't understand what you are saying. Please clarify (and simplify)

 

[whistler]

sorry

actually i wanna know how to edit grub.conf to password protect my linux menu entry "manually"..
got it now?