unRAID, Slackware Development system, & Windows

unRAID, Slackware Development system, & Windows« on: June 16, 2009, 07:08:22 AM »QuoteWindoze... why?

Sometimes, you will want to upgrade the BIOS on your motherboard. For some motherboards, this can only be done in Windows. There is also, occasionally, some utility to being able to boot Windows on a Linux system.

So if you want a system that has:

- A full Slackware Development system
- Windows XP
- Cache drive for unRAID
- Swap partition of Linux

Here are the (abbreviated) instructions:

First, make sure you have a bootable DVD drive.
Install a hard drive that will be your CACHE drive for unRAID. Put it on a controller port that can be booted, and set your BIOS to boot this drive.

Boot DOS from CD or floppy
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Run fdisk /mbr
Run fdisk and wipe out entire partition table


Boot Slackware from Slackware DVD
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Run fdisk and create 4 partitions:

1. Linux (for cache)
2. Windows
3. Swap
4. Linux (for Dev)

Set #2 active (bootable)

Boot WinXP for CD
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Install Windows to #2

Boot Slackware DVD
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Make #4 active (bootable)
Run Sackwarre setup.
Create swap on #3
Make #4 your root fs.
Format #1 with reiser

DO NOT INSTALL LILO TO MBR! Install it to the Linux root partition (option 1).

Proceed with complete Slackware install.

Reboot. Lilo should give you option to boot Windows (default) or Linux. Boot Linux and change lilo.conf to make Linux the default if you want.

Congrats! Now you can use the Wiki instructions to add unRAID to the Linux system and build a new kernel.