Felix Gomez wrote: > I am asking how I can install (step-by-step) my > Slackware 10.2 in the computer where there is already > a dual boot (98 and XP professional). I have 1 > partition reserved for the linux. I just made it using > fdisk.
1) Clone your hard drive, so if you trash anything, you will have a working replacement of what you lost. 2) Take the question you asked here, and reduce it to a good set of keywords, and submit it to Google, and start reading. 3) Continue reading, until you have amassed enough knowledge, so that you feel ready to give it a try. 4) Try it, and see what happens, making sure to keep a meticulously accurate record of absolutely everything you have done. My guess, is that GRUB or LILO will detect all three operating systems without any problem, but that is just a guess. 5) If the shit hits the fan, you will then have a spare HD, ready to pop into your machine with no annoying downtime, and a precise description of what you did, to begin you analysis, and preparations for try number two. As Chad already pointed out to you, requesting step-by-step tutorials be presented to you is a poor strategy, because: 1) you will be ignored, or 2) people will pick on you for being so naive, but most important, 3) you will not learn the analytical thinking skills that *nix demands of its users, by being spoon-fed step-by-step sets of instructions, that you follow, without understanding at all, why they actually work. Also... In my opinion, multiple boot machines are an unnecessary pain. If anything ever goes wrong with one of the operating systems you have in a multiple boot array, and you need to re-install the OS, you might encounter some tricky MBR problems, after the re-install. Instead, I purchased, for under $10.00 USD each on eBay, a pile of front-loading 5.25" drive trays. I installed receptacles in the computer... one for each place I wanted to plug a hard drive (only one is necessary for multiple OS's), and then I mounted the hard drives into trays that just plug right into the receptacles. Then I picked up a small pile of not very large HD's for the OS's, placed them in the trays, and installed a single OS on each hard drive, so that now, when I want to change OS's, I just shut down the computer, plug in the tray with the OS I want to run, and restart the computer. My data remains on a separate hard drive... one that has partitions that are readable and mountable by all the OS's I plan on using in the computer, so that I am able to work on the same dataset regardless of which OS I have plugged in. This is, in my opinion, a far superior solution, for those people who want to run multiple OS's on a single machine. It is also fairly economical, and does not eat up a lot of space. -- -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ . http://robertwittig.net/ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
