Re: [expert] lilo ??& install 9.1

2003-06-13 Thread richard bown
Its all very well Steven but., I 've installed many times all the way from Redhat 4.5 upwards, the first version of Mandrake was 7.0 then onward to MDK9.1. Not only on my machines,also on other peoples to get them started on Linux, and on numerous HD's with all sorts of variations of windows and

Re: [expert] lilo ??& install 9.1

2003-06-13 Thread Steven Broos
I think the MBR can't be of any trouble, because it is completely overwritten by the bootloader (as far as I know) It's only a small space, where a link to the rest of the booting files resides. Is it really possible to manipulate the MBR so that it can cause troubles with other OS' ? I know some

[expert] lilo ??& install 9.1

2003-06-12 Thread richard bown
Hi all I've had a real bad experience using a hard drive that previously had winxp on it. I ran very low on HD space so I took the 60GB HD out of the winxp machine , installed as hdc and backed up what files I needed off that drive. next step was to delete the ntfs partitions and repartition with