On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Anthony F. E. Lopez-Vito wrote:
> Ummm...sorry to butt in here; I haven't been following this thread but...
No problem, that's what a list is for and I need lots of advice.
> If you're talking about it trashing a linux partition: the Windows install
> disk doesn't care about a linux partition because it is not visible to
> Windows.
So, during windowz installation, it will appear the hd is
unpartitioned and unformated? Then, the "installer" will tell me to
partition and format the hd? So, I'll partition and format the portion of
my hd which I had set aside, unpartitioned and unformated(last 2GB), for
windowz. After which, the installation will continue. Will Linux see
this windowz partition?
I've partitioned my harddrive in this order starting from the
first byte: hda1(1GB), hda2(3.somethingGB), hda3(128MB). hda1 is in ext2
format. hda2 is in extended format. hda3 is a Linux swap format. I'm
saving the last 2GB for windowz. Should I have the linux fdisk partition
that as hda4 in dos format?
> However, Windows overwrites the MBR, so for example, if you have
> LILO currently in your MBR and you install Windows, LILO will be removed and
> you won't be able to reboot linux (unless you have a back up of lilo on a
> boot floppy, I think).
How can I determine if LILO is in the MBR?
Thanks, this helps a lot.
AL
