--- Ralph Bacolod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! I just bought a knoppix cd and i want to install > it on my computer. I > already have woody installed which is dual booting > with XP. I have 2 > questions. > 1. I want to replace woody without overwriting my > files in home. Is this > feasible? Home by the way is a different partition > .How do i go about it? > Can you please show me good howto. Ive googled and > it seems that there is a > lack of clear documentation. > 2. I dont have lilo on my mbr coz ive read that > NTloader must be in command > . So i just installed lilo on my root and let > NTloader boot.. Is this still > true? Is it ok if i just let LILO manage the > booting? > > TIA > > Rafiks > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard > http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Sorry i misred your post... I don't think that answers your question, but after writing it I thought of posting it anyway... Here is what i did I am not sure this is recommended, but it works wonderfully for me. I bought a used 10G hardrive and installed it in my computer has hda (primary IDE master) and I installed Linux on that drive. My original windows install is now primary IDE slave. I modified LILO so I can load XP or Linux. (see below) That way i am sure I cannot messup with anything on my original installation. I can always go back to my original install if I find the Debian learning curve to steep at times :). Drawback: Since windows is partitionned in NTFS I can only read my windows file from the Linux side. Windows doesn't even see the linux side. Here is how I modified lilo.conf after googling for some time: http://www.ksoft-creative-projects.co.uk/klug/klug-general/2003-January/000060.html other = /dev/hdb1 label = windows map-drive = 0x80 to = 0x81 map-drive = 0x81 to = 0x80 table = /dev/hdb maybe it can solve your problem... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]