Merci, Dzekuje, Danke Schoen ... Thank You ... It sounds promising. Win XP is on 'hda' and Deb Potato will be 'hdb'. If Deb had no problems with NT/2K it should be OK. I thought I'd float it past SLUG - I'd hate to go through the whole install process only to find a LILO incompatibility.
Actually, the situation is slightly more complex as I have a removable third 10G drive containing an earlier Woody installation but which I cannot boot due to a mucked up 2.4.14 kernel upgrade - a 2.4.x kernel was necessary to recognize the Promise controller but I finally solved _that_ problem by having the drives shuffled into different PCI slots (THANKS, 'getadog' !). This raises another issue: If I cannot rescue the 10G drive and it's downloads I might install RH 7.2 - but will that create a conflict between LILO and GRUB ? At the moment, I just want to get up a working and stable version of Debian on a drive with room for expansion, Evolution, OpenOffice, and the rest. Cheers, Adam Bogacki P.O. Box 38, Earlwood, NSW 2206, Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [current ISP] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [forwarding] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Silcock, Stephen Sent: Wednesday, 13 February 2002 3:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SLUG] Potato & Win XP compatibility > > Hi, I was wondering if anyone has experienced boot > compatibility issues > with Potato and XP in a multi-drive, multi-boot system. > I haven't used XP with Linux on the same box yet; but I have with all the previous flavours of Windows. The simple rule is this - If I installed Windows first, then Linux I never had any troubles. LILO is friendly; just point it at the Windows boot partition and it worked. If I put Linux on first; then Windows next I had problems. Windows overrode LILO and 95/98 I couldn't get to boot to Linux instead. NT/2K you can if you play with the NT bootloader (boot.ini) a bit. Linux is friendly to other OS's, Windows isn't, so install Windows first. Haven't used XP yet (and hopefully won't have to for a long time) so YMMV. S. :) PLEASE NOTE: This email transmission is confidential and intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, you must not use, disclose or print this transmission and you should delete it from your system. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
