Dual-boot help WAS: filmscanners: yet *another* low cost way to avoid the future

[Enoch's Vision, Inc. (Cary Enoch R...)]

At 06:44 01-09-01 +1200, Ian Boag wrote:
> >>  Seriously, if you have only one system
> >> which can never go down you had better be running Linux (;-))...
> >
> >Er, not necessarily. I am trying to teach myself rudimentary Linux, with
> >little success. A significant delay occurred when I forgot the root
> >password I had assigned and was unable to get into the machine for
> >3months. Then one day I remembered it. <G>
>
>With the same aim in mind I installed Linux & a dual boot. Worked fine
>until Nortons offered to fix my polluted boot sector and blew away the
>loader ....


I know this is OT but I'm gonna try and sneak it by anyway;-)

Restore your ability to boot Linux with this freeware utility. I used it to 
make RedHat Linux 7.1 an entry in my Windows 2000 boot menu. It doesn't 
change your boot sector or disturb Windows in the slightest. It does, 
however, require you to install a distribution with LILO as the bootloader 
and *not* to put LILO on the Master Boot Record (MBR). That'll trigger 
Norton every time and could also make Windows unbootable. Try it; it's easy.
http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm

Now if I could only get Linux to run my LS4000 I'd be a happy camper -- 
especially if I don't have to crawl through many pages of incomprehensible 
linux-babble to edit config files. I want the scanner to just come up and 
run like it does on non-Linux platforms. Anyone know how? Please share.


Cary Enoch Reinstein aka Enoch's Vision, Inc., Peach County, Georgia
http://www.enochsvision.com/
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