-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 17 Oct 2003 at 11:38, Rolf Pedersen wrote:
> > > D. R. Evans wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > OK, a really simple question: > > > > where is there a definitive howto describing exactly how to install 9.2 on > > a laptop that already has XP on it, in such a way that one can boot either > > OS at the end of the installation? > > > Everyone is advised to backup before install and, although it usually > works, there are no guarantees. If you choose to install the bootloader to > your / partition or floppy or otherwise not to MBR, where the XP loader is, > you might be able to make use of the following information at MUO Docs for > using the XP bootloader for booting Mandrake: > http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/i3boot.html > OK; thanks. Combining the info at that URL with a Knoppix disk allowed me to build a dual-boot system. For those that care, here is what I did. (Warning: it ain't pretty, and doubtless there are better/cleverer ways, but this worked). Starting position: laptop (IBM T40) with XP Pro installed. The XP is networked, but has no floppy. 1. Install Mdk 9.2. (in my case, / is on /dev/hda5). 2. Towards the end of the installation, install the bootloader to /, NOT to the MBR 3. Boot Knoppix. 4. NFS mount a remote filesystem. 5. Copy the first 512 octets of /dev/hda5 to a file in the remote filesystem (using dd). 6. Boot into XP 7. Copy the file created in step 5 to c:\linux.lnx 8. Edit c:\boot.ini so that it contains the line c:\linux.lnx="Mandrake 9.2" at the end 9. Reboot. You are now given a choice of Windows or Mandrake at boot time. Thanks again for the pointers. Doc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 -- QDPGP 2.70 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBP5BxGWnXrLw2KRK4EQIxTwCfSTF7XQnS+/yzUst2ezaN2FCQur0AoKFD BkR9DssUODT/vzoRJVEyrNM/ =xGxU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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