On Saturday 07 July 2001 11:03, Lee wrote:
> Trying to install BootMagic on a Manrake 7.0 that is already installed
> on the hd. Plan on adding SuSe later. Have BootMagic on a Partition
> Magic 4.0 disk. When I try to execute the file with
> /mnt/cdrom/BOOTMAGIC/ setup.exe Enter, I get a'" can't execute binary
> file" error message. If i try . /mnt/cdrom/BOOTMAGIC/setup.exe I get the
> same error message. Questions: 1) can BootMagic be installed from the
> Partition Magic cd on an already installed Linux system, 2) how do I get
> the binary file to execute from the cd?
>
I haven't used BootMagic for a looong time and then only briefly, but I
believe it requires DOS to use the setup. The files for setup must also
reside on a DOS drive.
Why not use grub?
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