On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, John Kissell wrote: > > > It's easy enough to uninstall LILO later, but you should first build a > > > non-modular kernel on a floppy, and verify that you can boot from it.
> > > I suspect you don't want to clobber another boot manager (System > > > Commander, or the like). But, when LILO is installed, it makes a > > > copy of the previous MBR, and you can tell it to restore the old one > > > later, which will also restore your previous boot setup. > > > As for XFree86 source, download the tarballs. Unpacking them will create > > > an xc/ directory. Just `make World` and `make install install.man > > > install.sdk` in that directory. > I have Nt4.0 on the first physical scsi disk. That good old gotcha > Microsoft. On a second scsi disk I have a dos partition and a 3gig > partition for linux. I use the bootdisks to boot to dos or linux. > This is probably out dated. Where do I find the MBR first of all to > save and how? Can I leave my partitions as they are? There's no need for you to worry about the MBR. As I've already said, the installation of LILO does that automatically. `man lilo` for the option that will tell it to restore the MBR it saved, which will cause it to be taken out of the boot process. You can then remove LILO using Slackware's package manager. But, again, only do this AFTER you have a bootdisk working properly. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
