Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?

2004-01-15 Thread Eric Huff
I could be wrong, but I think the restore function reads lilo.conf, restoring all entries that previously existed--including Winblows entries. Can anybody confirm this? That's correct. Is that the cli command, or is it an option on the cd? thanks, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More:

Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?

2004-01-15 Thread Miark
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 07:55:14 -0800, Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could be wrong, but I think the restore function reads lilo.conf, restoring all entries that previously existed--including Winblows entries. Can anybody confirm this? That's correct. Is that the cli command,

Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?

2004-01-15 Thread Eric Huff
I could be wrong, but I think the restore function reads lilo.conf, restoring all entries that previously existed--including Winblows entries. Can anybody confirm this? That's correct. Is that the cli command, or is it an option on the cd? Option on the CD. Thanks.

Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?

2004-01-14 Thread Miark
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 07:20:23 -0500, Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With XOSL that i use, installing Windows at any time would not cause any problem! It is true that windows writes to MBR and wipes out whatever is there. However XOSL has a restore option! So after installing a

Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?

2004-01-14 Thread Joe
Miark wrote: On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 07:20:23 -0500, Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With XOSL that i use, installing Windows at any time would not cause any problem! It is true that windows writes to MBR and wipes out whatever is there. However XOSL has a restore option! So after

Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?

2004-01-13 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 12:54 am, Ramin wrote: You are right. I forgot to explain this case. Actually my case was even more complicated since i wanted to reinstall Windows XP too. Once during the installation i used Mandrake partition utility to define partitions and format them but

[newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?

2004-01-12 Thread Joe
A friend has a laptop, which has XP in the first partition. When I installed mandrake, I created a small fat32 partition between XP and mandrake, with the intent of putting 98 in there for some legacy app he wants to use (something for working with an old version of windows CE that doesn't run

Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?

2004-01-12 Thread Ramin
Hiding from Windows98 should be fairly easy as it is rather an old windows. And i noticed during mandrake installation that it does have hidden FAT among the options for the file system. I have though not tried to see if how it performs. I am using XOSL as my boot loader which come with

Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?

2004-01-12 Thread jason pearl
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 23:34:48 -0500 Ramin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiding from Windows98 should be fairly easy as it is rather an old windows. And i noticed during mandrake installation that it does have hidden FAT among the options for the file system. I have though not tried to see if how