I only have one NTFS partition, the C:, on Windows XP. I have 70 GB of free space. The C: is my entire hard drive.

1) Is it possible to dual boot using LILO with slackware?

2) Can I do it without reinstalling Windows?

3) Can someone give me a brief set of instructions on doing this?

4) Is this at least somewhat correct:

Reboot with slackware cd in, boot from it

Somehow make a new partition with a native linux format.

Install there.

Put LILO in the root partition in installation.

Done?

1. Yes
2. Yes
3. You first need to resize your XP partition, so that you will have a place to install Slack into. My recommendation would be to first defrag XP, then repartition it using whatever tool you are most comfortable with. As for me, I recommend BootIt NG, from terabtye, which you can find here: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html
4. Basically yes, but you need to create the partition first.

Standard comment: be sure to backup any important data first before you start messing with partitions. -- J.W.

WinXP was freshly installed yesterday, so as far as I'm concerned I can't really screw anything up right now.

This is what I would do...as stated before, resize the Win partition, or re-install Windows to a smaller partition leaving the second partition unformated for the Slack install.

During the Slack install, choose to install Lilo to the root partition. Create a boot floppy for later.

After the Slack install, either boot from the floppy, or boot the cd with the following option (at the boot: screen)...

bare.i root=hda2 noinitrd ro

It will look like this...

boot:bare.i root=hda2 noinitrd ro

Once the system is booted, login as root and do the following...

insert a blank floppy...then do...

mkfs -t msdos /dev/fd0

Then do...

dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1

Then do...

mcopy /bootsect.lnx a:

reboot into Windows, then copy the bootsect.lnx file from the floppy to C:\

Right click on "My Computer", click Properties, click the Advanced tab, click Settings under Startup and Recovery, click Edit, add the following on a seperate line...

C:\BOOTSECT.LNX="Slackware"

Save the file, reboot, then choose either Windows or Slackware. Anytime you recompile the kernel, or change Lilo, you'll need to follow the process again. HTH.

Ok... I did the complete oposite when I had installed Slackware. I installed Lilo initially on the MBR. I tried a recovery for W2K_AS and was unsuccessful in removing LILO.

In any case, is there a way I could edit lilo.conf to reflect that I do have another system on another partition and select to boot either one from LILO at boot?

Is it necessay to have 3 partitions for slack? 1 for boot 2nd for swap and a 3rd for root; if doing a dual boot?