Akintayo Holder wrote:
>
> I have to install NT 4 on my main machine, it currently dual boots with
> LILO to Linux and W95. Is it possible to install NT aithout affecting
> LILO ?.
NT will unfortunately overwrite your master boot record (which is,
I assume, where LILO is set up on your machine) without so much as
even politely asking first. Make sure you have a Linux boot disk
(the Red Hat install disk will work, as an example) and after the
NT install, boot from this. I'm going to use the Red Hat boot disk
as an example here, because I have no experience with other distro's
disks. I'll also pretend that your Linux root partition ("/") is on
/dev/hda1...you'll need to substitute your actual partition where
"/" is.
Put your disk in the drive, and commence the boot. When you get:
boot:
type in "linux root=/dev/hda1" (without the quotes, and substitute
where your actual root partition is).
When (if?) the system comes up, log in as root. Edit /etc/lilo.conf
to include an entry for Windows NT (should be similar to your Win95
entry...you ought to be able to figure out from what's already in
the file what you need to add for WinNT), then run /sbin/lilo. Lilo
should spit out something like:
added linux *
added windows
added winnt
Obviously, the labels (linux, windows, winnt) will be what you
actually called them in /etc/lilo.conf, and the default (the one
with the *) will be whatever you specified as default (by making
it the first entry listed in /etc/lilo.conf), but you should get
something similar to this. If anything's wrong, Lilo will say so
and you'll need to fix your /etc/lilo.conf. If there are no errors,
Lilo will re-write itself to your master boot record, and you should
be all set.
Bill Kocik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (answering from home today)
