I recommend following Paul's suggestions. If you would prefer a GUI boot
manager instead of LILO, then read on:
When installing Linux, be sure to install LILO to the first sector on the
Linux partition (NOT the MBR).
To multi-boot Windows and Linux:
1) Backup your MBR (personally, I backup my MBR using "Ranish Partion
Manager 2.38")
2) Install and setup a boot manager (I recommend XOSL)
Some possible options for boot managers are:
A) XOSL (http://www.xosl.org)-The best GUI boot manager IMHO (freeware)
B) BootMagic (http://www.powerquest.com) A commercial GUI boot manager
C) LILO
D) Ranish Partition Manager (http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/)-I
use it to backup my MBR, but I don't use it as a boot manager. (freeware)
HTH,
Matt
>From: Paul Derbyshire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [newbie] install problems
>Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 03:11:29 -0500
>
>
>Re: your concerns about needing to fumble with a floppy if you install
>Linux on a separate partition, don't worry. Mandrake installs a boot menu
>called "lilo" into the boot sector of your boot disk. Instead of the
>Windoze banner at startup,you'll see a boot prompt "lilo boot:" and can
>enter "linux" or "dos" at it -- the latter will give you the familiar
>banner, the former will give you lots of colorful text messages scrolling
>up the screen, and not much later, the KDE desktop. :-)
>
>Re: Lnx4Win -- forget it. In the long term it's better to get a new
>partition and format it with the ext2 filesystem. Linux will be very much
>faster and more efficient that way. Make a swap partition too. Make it 4x
>the size of your memory -- my machine has 64 megs of RAM, so I made a 256
>meg swap partition.
>
>Re: installing -- try putting the CD-ROM in your drive and rebooting the
>machine. Some modern computer BIOSes allow booting from the CD-ROM, and the
>Mandrake CD has a boot sector on it, so if you have a recent BIOS, you'll
>boot right into a Mandrake installer complete with partition editing tool.
>
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