On Wed 19 Nov 03, 8:51 AM, Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wednesday 19 November 2003 08:34 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > ... > > 1. system already had linux on hda and hdb > > 2. unplugged hda and hdb completely. > > 3. installed a new hdc. > > 3. installed win2k on hdc. > > 4. plugged hda and hdb back in. > > 5. added this to lilo.conf and ran lilo: > > Dunno about Win2K but in my experience Windows wants to be > on the first drive. Try cabling the Windows disk as hda and > see if it boots up. > > If so, then the remaining task is to set up Linux as hdb and > hdc (make a boot diskette, change /etc/fstab, etc.), and > install lilo onto hda. > > -- Rod ok, i didn't know that; i'll give it a try. since i may be writing lilo into the MBR on the drive with windows, i'd like to make a backup, just in case. what's the dd command to that?
dd if=/dev/hda of=boot.bak bs=???? pete -- GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
