There is an excellent GPL'd boot manager called XOSL (http://www.xosl.org). It can install on it's own partition, or your windows partition. It is absolutely brilliant. When you set it up, it presents you with a list of partitions on your machine, you select which ones you want in your boot-up menu (they have to be bootable, of course), and you're away.
Here's what I did, which is the easiest way of making a dual-boot system I've come across: - Created a FAT32 partition (about half my hard drive - DiabloII needs a lot of disk space) and installed windows as per usual. - Install Debian on the remainder of the drive, to boot from a floppy. - Install XOSL in Windows. File away the floppy. You still need to install lilo in your GNU/Linux setup, but I can't recall having to alter the default config or do anything fancy to get XOSL to kick-start it. Good luck. Matthew. On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 12:25:18PM -0700, Nelson PC wrote: > hey all. > total newbie here.... never touched linux. i am looking to remedy > that by installing some flavour of linux/ unix on my Windows 2000 box. > There is lots of documentation out there about installations w/ 98. > Can't find anything about Win2K. Who has this set-up, and is > there anything special that a guy needs to know to pull it off? > Cheerz. -- ------------------------------------------------------ Industrial Workers of the World - http://www.iww.org -------------- Join the One Big Union! --------------- ------------------------------------------------------ Software should not have owners - http://www.gnu.org ---- Use Debian GNU/Linux - http://www.debian.org ---- ------------------------------------------------------ ----- Parramatta Computer Access Network (PCAN) ------ ------------- http://www.cat.org.au/pcan ------------- ------------------------------------------------------