I use a floppy with lilo installed on it. I stay as far away from the mbr as possible. ntldr didn't like it when I went messin around with the boot record.
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Hebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 9:18 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general]HELP??? > Cap'n Buck, > > If you don't mind, I'd rather reply to the general > mailing list so that others can join in the > discussion. > > Mandrake 8.2 should detect that you already have M$ > Windows 2000 installed on your computer and install > the boot loader appropriately. You can also choose not > to install the boot loader at all and instead make a > boot floppy to boot up Linux. > > Just make sure you do the "Recommended" install and > you should be ok. > > Before you do anything, make a "Repair" disk for > Windows 2000 in case you need to reinstall the M$ > Windows boot loader. See your docs/Help for > instructions. I've used BootPart > (http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm) to reinstall my > M$ WinXP NT boot loader after writing over it. > > John Hebert > > --- "\"Cap'n Buck\"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, > > > > Are there any Mandrake "guru's" out there?? E-mail > > me at > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > > > Here is the 'deal'. I have a dual-booted Celeron > > 400. The first ("C") > > drive has WIN 2000 > > on it. I use it at home to do work. It's a 15 gig > > Maxtor. > > > > The 'second' drive, is a 6 gig Maxtor and presently > > has Caldera 2.3 on it. > > I am not happy > > with the Caldera and wish to *remove* or "overlay" > > it with MD ver 8.1. > > > > The last time I did the MD 8.0 install, it > > "overewrote" the boot sector on > > the "C" drive and > > did NOT allow me to even access it. > > > > ANY 'ideas' on how to keep this from happening, > > again? > > > > Cap'n Buck > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more > http://games.yahoo.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
