Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98

2000-04-01 Thread Trevor Farrell
Mage Grimau wrote: I ended up with a 7M /boot partition, 2 - 2G FAT16 partitions (Win98 NT tend to screw up each other's "Program Files" directories when on the same partition) and a 16G / partition. So far, they're all happy (except Win98 seems to like corrupting its own space

Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98

2000-04-01 Thread Mage Grimau
--- Trevor Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mage Grimau wrote: I ended up with a 7M /boot partition, 2 - 2G FAT16 partitions (Win98 NT tend to screw up each other's "Program Files" directories when on the same partition) and a 16G / partition. So far, they're all happy (except

Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98

2000-03-30 Thread Michael Holt
Mage Grimau wrote: I ended up with a 7M /boot partition, 2 - 2G FAT16 partitions (Win98 NT tend to screw up each other's "Program Files" directories when on the same partition) and a 16G / partition. So far, they're all happy (except Win98 seems to like corrupting its own space

Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98

2000-03-29 Thread Trevor Farrell
Mage Grimau wrote: I'm trying to get my machine to dual-boot Win98 and linux. After I install linux (have to do it first or the partitioning doesn't work right) I installed Win98. Then I tried to use my linux boot disk to reload LILO, but it says "/dev/hda1 has no boot record" and quits

Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98

2000-03-29 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
CTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 2:40 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98 Mage Grimau wrote: I'm trying to get my machine to dual-boot Win98 and linux. After I install linux (have to do it first or the partitioning doesn't work right) I installed Win98. Then I tr

Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98

2000-03-29 Thread Jim Ockers
oblem will be solved. Michael Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Trevor Farrell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 2:40 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98 Mage Grimau wrote: I'm trying to get

Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98

2000-03-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote: One thing you might try if you wish to install Mandrake first is to create a partition (~100 MB) and name it's mount point "/boot". Umm... Ok. I'll bite. Why so large? It's only going to hold the kernel and system map, etc. That's a grand total of under a meg.

Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98

2000-03-29 Thread Michael Holt
John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote: One thing you might try if you wish to install Mandrake first is to create a partition (~100 MB) and name it's mount point "/boot". Umm... Ok. I'll bite. Why so large? It's only going to hold the kernel and system map, etc. That's a

Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98

2000-03-29 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | - Original Message - | From: "Trevor Farrell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 2:40 AM | Subject: Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98 | | | Mage Grimau wrote: | |I'm trying to get my machine to dual-boot

Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98

2000-03-29 Thread Jim Ockers
You have a point, I merely was following advice from the documentation packaged with SuSE 6.1. I've never tried less space. On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote: John Aldrich wrote: On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote: One thing you might try if you wish to install Mandrake first is to create a

Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98

2000-03-29 Thread Sergio P. Korlowsky
Trevor Farrell wrote: Mage Grimau wrote: I'm trying to get my machine to dual-boot Win98 and linux. After I install linux (have to do it first or the partitioning doesn't work right) I installed Win98. Then I tried to use my linux boot disk to reload LILO, but it says "/dev/hda1 has

Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98

2000-03-29 Thread Mage Grimau
: "Trevor Farrell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 2:40 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98 Mage Grimau wrote: I'm trying to get my machine to dual-boot Win98 and linux. After I install linux (have to do

Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98

2000-03-29 Thread Mage Grimau
I ended up with a 7M /boot partition, 2 - 2G FAT16 partitions (Win98 NT tend to screw up each other's "Program Files" directories when on the same partition) and a 16G / partition. So far, they're all happy (except Win98 seems to like corrupting its own space frequently, but I already knew

[expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98

2000-03-27 Thread Mage Grimau
I'm trying to get my machine to dual-boot Win98 and linux. After I install linux (have to do it first or the partitioning doesn't work right) I installed Win98. Then I tried to use my linux boot disk to reload LILO, but it says "/dev/hda1 has no boot record" and quits without doing anything

Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98

2000-03-27 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 10:11 AM 03/27/2000 -0800, Mage Grimau wrote: I'm trying to get my machine to dual-boot Win98 and linux. After I install linux (have to do it first or the partitioning doesn't work right) I installed Win98. Then I tried to use my linux boot disk to reload LILO, but it says "/dev/hda1 has no

Re: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98

2000-03-27 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
h 27, 2000 10:11 AM Subject: [expert] Re-installing LILO after Win98 I'm trying to get my machine to dual-boot Win98 and linux. After I install linux (have to do it first or the partitioning doesn't work right) I installed Win98. Then I tried to use my linux boot disk to reload LILO, but it