Thanks to Mike Andrew and Collins Richey for the suggestions.
I will look into booting from floppy using lilo or grub. I have used both on
other distributions and grub comes on eDesktop 2.4.
Geof.
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On Sunday 05 August 2001 07:57 am, you wrote:
> On Sunday 05 August 2001 20:14, Collins Richey wrote:
> >>use lilo
> >
> > Same thing applies with grub from floppy. I can't get grub to install
> > successfully on my hed, but the grub boot floppy is totally
> > self-contained and works flawlessly for my multi-boot machine.
>
> That makes perfect sense to me, except I don't have experience with grub,
> let alone using it on a boot floppy. But the principle of booting genuine
> linux (not loadlin) without affecting the existing mbr that already points
> to a working OS (in this case windoze) is very sound.
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