On Monday 19 Sep 2005 18:52, Ted Garvin wrote: > I have LE2005 installed on one hard-drive and want to install Winblows > on the other and have a dual boot system. How do I do it w/o nailing > either system?
Ted, this is called thread hijacking, and is severely frowned on ;-) Take a look at http://mandriva.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrivaMailingListEtiquette Now, to your question. Installing windows will have no effect on your LE2005, but it will write its own bootloader, so you won't be able to see your linux install. It's easily cured, though, once you get that far. You go back to the LE2005 install disk 1, booting from it, hit Esc (I think that's the one, but you'll see a message on screen) and select 'Rescue'. From there one option is to restore the bootloader. Done! Don't forget, though, that if you want to share data you should create a fat32 partition to do it. Writing to ntfs is still extremely risky. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Mandriva hints & tips: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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