I've heard stories of the upgrade taking up to 17 hours. Yea, you read that
right. :) 17 hours. But then I heard another person say 3 hours. So its
unpredictable. A new installation takes alot less time then the upgrade.
----- Original Message -----
From: Eunice Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: newbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 9:19 AM
Subject: [newbie] Rescue Disk
> I've been reading little snippets on the list about using the
> installation CD for 7.1 has a rescue disk, but no specifics. Do I just
> type rescue at the beinning?
> I have a dual boot on my laptop , and I'm thinking of reintalling
> Windows.
> I use LILO on the MBR. I have no floppy drive for the machine,thus I
> don't have a boot disk.
> I'm sure that I can just go ahead and reinstall Windows, and then use
> the Mandrake install CD to do an 'upgrade' just to reinstall LILO.
>
> My questions:
> Will I have to go through the entire process (no additonal
> packages)?--time consuming
> Or can I use the expert mode and just skip to installing the
> bootloader?
>
> Thanks
> Eunice Thompson
>
>
