Hi, > After hours and hours of aggravation I was finally able to get both > Windoze and Debian installed on my wife's compaq presario. Because of > partioning problems (I think) I had to install win98 in the first > partition and it finally worked fine. I will copy some of the files from > the CD to drive, as suggested by folks here on the list.
Everyone goes through this, its a rite of passage. :) > > My problem now is that when I installed and configured the kernel for > libranet debian, it overwrote the mbr and now I can't boot windoze from > the hd. Lilo just gives me linux. > > I will get to the man page as soon as I'm not so tired, in the meantime, > I have a couple of questions: > > 1.) Can I use the Liloconfig tool to include windoze in my lilo > configuration. I know this is a dumb question, I'm just overly cautious > about blowing my /mbr because I have a LS-120 floppy drive that so far > has not allowed me to make any boot floppies. I also have linuxconf on > the machine. > i don't know about liloconfig. but if you add these lines to your /etc/lilo.conf file, you should have no problems other=/dev/hda1 label=windows and rerun /sbin/lilo to rewrite the changes. that is assuming windows is on the first hard drive (hda), partition 1. > 2.) Because of this lack of boot floppies, is there a bullet-proof way > to configure LILO for both OS's? > > thanks > hope that helps. Jason