Neat, Sweet, Petite. Good to go on all fronts. Thanks for the help. (I understood the first time :) At 12:32 PM 8/17/2001 -0700, you wrote: >Did you make a boot floppy during the initial installation? If so you are good to go. >If not go to Mandrake control center>boot>make boot floppy or something >close to that(I'm not at the linux computer yet) Make the boot floppy for the >partition you set it to and then log off. If you already have the floppy made go >directly to this step and that is boot up with the MS start up floppy in and go to >dos prompt on boot. In Win98 it just takes a ctrl-F5 to get the a: prompt >but at any rate, once you are at the command prompt type "fdisk /mbr" and you will >have the normal windows boot back. Slip in the floppy and boot and you >will get a lilo prompt to boot linux. That's how it should work if everything is set >the same on your machine as is on mine. HTH Dennis M. > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >Behalf Of Dean Morrell >Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 1:10 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [newbie] removing boot manager > >I installed Mandrake 8.0 a couple days ago. What a ride. I installed it on a >machine with Win98se already running. Now, I like the os, but I don't want a > >boot manager on this system. I'd much rather boot from a floppy to access the os. >Can someone help with removing the boot manager and then configuring to > >boot to Mandrake 8 from floppy? > >Dean > >-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- > >"The way I see it, there were two great triumphs, two things that I'm proudest of. >One is the economic recovery, in which the people of America created - and >filled - 19 million new jobs. The other is the recovery of our morale. America is >respected again in the world and looked to for leadership." > >-Ronald Reagan's Farewell Address > Dean -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- "The way I see it, there were two great triumphs, two things that I'm proudest of. One is the economic recovery, in which the people of America created - and filled - 19 million new jobs. The other is the recovery of our morale. America is respected again in the world and looked to for leadership." -Ronald Reagan's Farewell Address
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