On Sunday 27 August 2006 18:08, PaulNM wrote:
Mick wrote:
Yes. You may also remove the linux boot image file C:\bootsect.lnx. The
only drawback is that if he keeps Gentoo and ends up using it regularly,
then every time you/he compile a new kernel you will need to repeat the
exercise.
Hi,
A friend asked about trying out Linux. After doing a bit of reading
and looking at the Gentoo site he wanted to try Gentoo so I said I'd
help install it o his Windows box. The situation that I've not faced
in a long time, if ever, is that he has an existing Windows
installation on the first
On Saturday 26 August 2006 21:16, Mark Knecht wrote:
1) Do I load grub on /dev/hda1 - the NTSF partition? This seems wrong
to me as grub most likely doesn't like NTSF.
Please don't! It'll wipe out the Windoze partition boot sector and he won't
be able to boot WinXP again (not without running
Thanks Mick,
I've never done the NTLDR method. That looks fairly interesting and
somewhat benign in the sense that (it appears...) I add an entry to
boot.ini to make Linux visible and then remove it if he doesn't end up
using Linux at all.
I'll check it out. I found this page:
On Saturday 26 August 2006 22:10, Mark Knecht wrote:
Thanks Mick,
I've never done the NTLDR method. That looks fairly interesting and
somewhat benign in the sense that (it appears...) I add an entry to
boot.ini to make Linux visible and then remove it if he doesn't end up
using Linux at
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