On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 08:45 am, many eyes noted that D. R. Evans wrote: > OK; thanks. Combining the info at that URL with a Knoppix disk allowed me > to build a dual-boot system. > > For those that care, here is what I did. (Warning: it ain't pretty, and > doubtless there are better/cleverer ways, but this worked). > > Starting position: laptop (IBM T40) with XP Pro installed. The XP is > networked, but has no floppy. > > 1. Install Mdk 9.2. (in my case, / is on /dev/hda5). > 2. Towards the end of the installation, install the bootloader to /, NOT to > the MBR > 3. Boot Knoppix. > 4. NFS mount a remote filesystem. > 5. Copy the first 512 octets of /dev/hda5 to a file in the remote > filesystem (using dd). > 6. Boot into XP > 7. Copy the file created in step 5 to c:\linux.lnx > 8. Edit c:\boot.ini so that it contains the line > c:\linux.lnx="Mandrake 9.2" > at the end > 9. Reboot. > > You are now given a choice of Windows or Mandrake at boot time. > > Thanks again for the pointers. > > Doc
Thanks for that info Doc. Charlie -- Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. Helen Keller This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1Beta
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