On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 22:58, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Monday 21 June 2004 08:49 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > > For whatever reason, the MS family of OS's refuses to be on anything - > > or rather, boot from anything except for HDA1 (or the entire HDA for > > that matter); by common practise, Windows is install first, then > > everything else after that. Can't get around it. > > To give MS credit where it is due, that is not totally true. Win XP can be > readily installed to any hard drive and while it is true that it will rewrite > the MBR of HDA with its own boot loader, booting from the Mandrake CD and > adding an entry to lilo.conf and then reinstalling lilo to the MBR will allow > dual booting. Of course, you have to know what you are doing when you > install Windows and IIRC, you have to manually create the installation > partitions, not allow Windows to do it on its own.
Ok, so ya pinned me to a dead fish on that - but still, UNLESS YOU'RE AN EXPERT, you're going to hose up the installation...and if you're dependent on particular partion numberings, installing Windows AFTER linux is going to be a nightmare. stephen kuhn - proprietor __________________________________________________________________ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __________________________________________________________________ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __________________________________________________________________ Certified virus-free since we don't use Microsoft products Real wealth can only increase. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
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