RE: [newbie] removing boot manager

2001-08-17 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] removing boot manager Should have proof read before I sent the message, it sounds a bit confusing now that I read it. Look for the words linux boot floppy for clarification. Also to the list I appologize if I've been sending HTML the dang windows machine reverted on me

Re: [newbie] removing boot manager

2001-08-17 Thread Richie de Almeida
You can configure a bootdisk from Mandrake Control Center. You can also uninstall LILO by runnnig /sbin/lilo -U /dev/hda. You might also want to run fdisk and make sure your win98 partition is marked as the active/bootable partition. Booting up with a win98 rescue disk and typing SYS C:

RE: [newbie] removing boot manager

2001-08-17 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] removing boot manager Did you make a boot floppy during the initial installation? If so you are good to go. If not go to Mandrake control centerbootmake boot floppy or something close to that(I'm not at the linux computer yet) Make the boot floppy for the partition you set

RE: [newbie] removing boot manager

2001-08-17 Thread Dean Morrell
as is on mine. HTH Dennis M. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dean Morrell Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 1:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] removing boot manager I installed Mandrake 8.0 a couple days ago

[newbie] removing boot manager

2001-08-17 Thread Dean Morrell
I installed Mandrake 8.0 a couple days ago. What a ride. I installed it on a machine with Win98se already running. Now, I like the os, but I don't want a boot manager on this system. I'd much rather boot from a floppy to access the os. Can someone help with removing the boot manager and