On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 11:39:20 +1300 Rosemary McGillicuddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> During the install is it quite safe to allow the windows boot > loader to be overwritten with GRUB or LILO? > > When I tried Linux a few years ago I had some problems with boot > loader and ended having to do fresh install of windows. > Thanks > Rosemary should not be a problem, if you need to restore it back to win for some reason, something like a "fdisk /mbr" or something like that could be run from a win boot disk which would reload the Master Boot Record or mbr which windows uses. No fresh install of windows would be needed either. if you don't feel comfortable doing that, you could always save the bootloader to a floppy to avoid overwriting your mbr. -- Linux user #280097 http://counter.li.org http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
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