Re: Musings about emergency recovery, etc.

2002-02-26 Thread Collins
[ mostly a big snip ] On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:22:56 -0500 David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 16:40:27 -0700 begin Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: Why on earth would you: 1. boot Linux from Windoze? 2. allow Windoze to touch a Linux kernel? Thanks for

Re: Musings about emergency recovery, etc.

2002-02-26 Thread Michael Hipp
Don't know if this is a better way or not, it just works for me. - Install your main, stable distro in hda1, put all your grub stuff there in it's /boot (no particular need for it to be a separate partition). Make several entries in menu.lst like Linux - hda5 and so forth. That way whatever

Re: Musings about emergency recovery, etc.

2002-02-25 Thread David A. Bandel
On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 16:40:27 -0700 begin Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: [snip] Another thing you'll want as a part of your toolkit is a grub boot floppy (see the SXS for that). Yes I know LILO is preferred by many and grub is a royal pain, but LILO is pretty much worthless in an

Musings about emergency recovery, etc.

2002-02-24 Thread Collins
Just a word to the newbies (or the oldies as well) among us, if you don't already have a copy of the linuxcare bootable cdrom (www.linuxcare.com), get one soonest. It's the greatest thing since sliced bread. You can even download and burn it from Windows. If you ever reach the point where you

Re: Musings about emergency recovery, etc.

2002-02-24 Thread Zoran
On Feb 24 Collins was heard saying: -Just a word to the newbies (or the oldies as well) among us, if you -don't already have a copy of the linuxcare bootable cdrom -(www.linuxcare.com), get one soonest. It's the greatest thing since *** It is at http://lbt.linuxcare.com/download.epl to be