On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, at 4:52pm, Michael O'Donnell wrote: > Does saying > > fdisk /mbr > > preserve the existing partition boundary info?
Yes. It simply re-writes the MBR boot code. It does not touch the actual partition table. > Compile? Shouldn't the .deb have a binary in it that's usable as is > (assuming he can find a means of extracting it under Mandrake...) There is a reason package managers complain about dependencies. If the the Debian pre-built binary was built against significantly different libraries, it might not run at all, or worse still, behave incorrectly. -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
