> > 2. I would like to keep Win2K and duel boot to Linux. What is the > > easiest > > way to duel-boot a Linux/Win2K machine? > > Simple, if its like my A22m, there will be two FAT32 partitions. Just resize > these (with Partition Magic, or something else), and install Linux. You can > safetly install lilo to the MBR, and boot Win2k using an entry in lilo.conf
Cool, so you use LILO -> NT. I've seen a few documents which use the NT boot loader to boot Linux and was not sure about which order was best. > > 3. IBM have not provided a rescue disk but have instead used a rescue > > partition, which is the strangest idea I've ever heard. What if I need > > to > > rescue the machine because the disk crashed? As you can imagine, this is > > a > > large partition (~750M) - does anyone know if it can be burnt onto a > > couple > > of CDs easily? Has anyone asked for rescue CDs from IBM? > > Are you in Australasia by any chance? They did the same to me. I think it has to > do with Microsoft's attitude to us (they think we're a bunch of pirates). Still > a very stupid idea though. I'm in England. This must be an international thing... > As for saving the SERVICE partition, mount it under Linux. See if has the > programs in the root directory neccessary for booting (command.com is the only > one I can think of right now). If it is, then copy the files onto two CD's, or > use a multi-volume tar archive. I managed to tell Win2K to mount it as Z: so I can see it - I'll probably tar it up and dump it on CDs at some point. Thanks, Ross -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
