On Thursday 08 April 2004 22:22, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > Windows - rather, all MS OS's - require that they're on the first > partition. So, if you make some free space on your HDA and install > Windows, it will rewrite the MBR to point to IT as the first partition > and likely hose up your entire installation of MDK (or any other non-MS > OS). > > When installing, the idea would be to install Windows first and finish > that, then install linux afterwards and let lilo (or grub) be the > bootloader. Sucks, but that's the safest way. > > Generally, when I do dual-boots, I create a partition for Windows > towards the end of the first drive and leave free space prior to that > for linux - after installing Windows, I then make use of the remaining > space for linux and let lilo deal with booting. > > BTW, can't your brother deal with VMware? > > stephen kuhn - owner > ============================== > illawarra computer services > a kuhn media australia company > http://kma.0catch.com > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * > We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a law > against it by that time.
thanks, he agreed with this :P -- Klemens Arro My software never has bugs; it just develops random features. Using: Mandrake Linux 10 Registered Linux User#: 346118 ICQ#: 179198850
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