[newbie] Installation suggestion

1999-09-09 Thread Lennart Petersson
Does anyone have a suggestion about how to install Mandrake in a situation like this: Having a laptop running NT4. Have one extra HD that i will put into the laptop and i want to have Mandrake on that one with the possibility to dual-boot between them. One problem is that when i install the

Re: [newbie] Installation suggestion

1999-09-09 Thread Simon Norris
. Can anyone else offer the location of this program? - Original Message - From: Lennart Petersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 10:07 AM Subject: [newbie] Installation suggestion Does anyone have a suggestion about how to install Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Installation suggestion

1999-09-09 Thread Hoyt
- Original Message - From: Simon Norris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 6:39 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation suggestion If your BIOS supports CD booting, then it can be done, and is very easy. If not, then there is a program on the CD

Re: [newbie] Installation suggestion

1999-09-09 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, you wrote: Having a laptop running NT4. Have one extra HD that i will put into the laptop and i want to have Mandrake on that one with the possibility to dual-boot between them. One problem is that when i install the extra HD i have to remove the floppy. Is it possible to

Re: [newbie] Installation suggestion

1999-09-09 Thread Lennart Petersson
Ok, thanks all. It should be no problem to boot from CDROM with my laptop. Do you have any suggestions about how to handle the dual boot? /Lennart John Aldrich wrote: On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, you wrote: Having a laptop running NT4. Have one extra HD that i will put into the laptop and i want

Re: [newbie] Installation suggestion

1999-09-09 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 09 Sep 1999, you wrote: Ok, thanks all. It should be no problem to boot from CDROM with my laptop. Do you have any suggestions about how to handle the dual boot? /Lennart Other than using the NT Boot loader, no. My understanding is that it's better to put Linux in the boot loader,

Re: [newbie] Installation suggestion

1999-09-09 Thread Jeanette Russo
A lot of people use this program to add Linux to the NT bootloader menu. http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm Jeanette - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 2:02 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation