On Tuesday 21 September 2004 12:09, Marc wrote:
I have been fighting with a dual boot installation for days. I give
up!!! It's time to ask you folks.
I just did a low level format of the Hard drive and then a fresh
install of win XP. Did a defrag, shut down right away and did a
install of ML
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 01:37 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 12:09, Marc wrote:
Reinstall XP. Insert CD1 run an update not a reinstall of mdk and you
should be ok. Better reinstall mdk on the entire disk!
Thanks I will give it a try. You are right about better
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 18:22, Marc wrote:
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 05:53 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 17:18, Marc wrote:
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 01:37 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 12:09, Marc wrote:
snip
Reinstall XP.
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 08:07 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 18:22, Marc wrote:
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 05:53 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 17:18, Marc wrote:
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 01:37 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
On Tuesday 21
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 20:28, Marc wrote:
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 08:07 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 18:22, Marc wrote:
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 05:53 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote:
On Tuesday 21 September 2004 17:18, Marc wrote:
On Tuesday 21 September
Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 03:04, SnapafunFrank wrote:
OK. You are teaching me something here but I haven't quite nailed it yet.
Re partitions:]
/dev/hda1 * 1 125 1004031 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 126293722587390 85 Linux extended
Vincent Voois wrote:
SnapafunFrank wrote:
Unless you have actually tried for yourself, please layoff saying
things as if they were fact. As to windows, WinMe ain't so bad once
you bash
For the fact that i couldn't run half the shit in WinME due to
whatever MS invention was in there makes ME
SnapafunFrank wrote:
OK. You are teaching me something here but I haven't quite nailed it yet.
Re partitions:]
/dev/hda1 * 1 125 1004031 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 126293722587390 85 Linux extended
/dev/hda32938443412024652+
Vincent Voois wrote:
SnapafunFrank wrote:
OK. You are teaching me something here but I haven't quite nailed it
yet.
Re partitions:]
/dev/hda1 * 1 125 1004031 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 126293722587390 85 Linux extended
/dev/hda32938
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 03:04, SnapafunFrank wrote:
OK. You are teaching me something here but I haven't quite nailed it yet.
Re partitions:]
/dev/hda1 * 1 125 1004031 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 126293722587390 85 Linux extended
/dev/hda3
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 04:42, SnapafunFrank wrote:
Hmmm. First I had WinMe then using Mandrake9.1 I was able to
repartiton the HDD for dual booting. Having got 9.1 settled I had to
make a choice, dump WinMe and use the space for Linux storage or start
again with another HDD. I still
JRH wrote:
Hi all,
Bit of a good one this!
I have 2 HDD's in my machine, and I want to boot from both Drives.
My main drive (/dev/hdc) is where LiLo is installed.
On my main drive, I have: hdc1: Windows 98SE, hdc5: /root, hdc7: /usr, hdc8:
/home.
The second drive, contains Windows ME (dont
Vincent Voois wrote:
Asa Rossoff wrote:
When I boot, I select Win ME in LiLo, then I get a boot failure
message (something along the lines of invalid boot disk, please
replace and hit any key to retry- looks like it's BIOS initiated.)
Swop the drives over, and it will boot into ME fine, so the
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 12:14, Asa Rossoff wrote:
JRH wrote:
Hi all,
Bit of a good one this!
I have 2 HDD's in my machine, and I want to boot from both Drives.
My main drive (/dev/hdc) is where LiLo is installed.
On my main drive, I have: hdc1: Windows 98SE, hdc5: /root,
Asa Rossoff wrote:
Vincent Voois wrote:
Asa Rossoff wrote:
When I boot, I select Win ME in LiLo, then I get a boot failure
message (something along the lines of invalid boot disk, please
replace and hit any key to retry- looks like it's BIOS initiated.)
Swop the drives over, and it will boot
On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 14:26, JRH wrote:
Hi all,
Bit of a good one this!
I have 2 HDD's in my machine, and I want to boot from both Drives.
My main drive (/dev/hdc) is where LiLo is installed.
On my main drive, I have: hdc1: Windows 98SE, hdc5: /root, hdc7: /usr, hdc8:
/home.
The
On Monday 30 August 2004 11:14 pm, Asa Rossoff wrote:
Windows expects to boot from the first drive in the system (which it
will always call C:). I believe there are ways to trick it into booting
from other drives. I haven't tried it. Smart Boot Manager can do this
by (I think) having the
SnapafunFrank wrote:
Unless you have actually tried for yourself, please layoff saying things
as if they were fact. As to windows, WinMe ain't so bad once you bash
For the fact that i couldn't run half the shit in WinME due to whatever MS invention was in there makes ME a pretty invaluable
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 04:29, Asa Rossoff wrote:
Vincent Voois wrote:
Asa Rossoff wrote:
snip
Second, Windows boots from the first boot-device, but it can be
configured to have it's OS on another drive by altering the MSDOS.INI
and in case of WinNT 4.x, 5.x you can alter
JRH wrote:
Hi all,
Bit of a good one this!
I have 2 HDD's in my machine, and I want to boot from both Drives.
My main drive (/dev/hdc) is where LiLo is installed.
On my main drive, I have: hdc1: Windows 98SE, hdc5: /root, hdc7: /usr, hdc8:
/home.
The second drive, contains Windows ME (dont
Asa Rossoff wrote:
When I boot, I select Win ME in LiLo, then I get a boot failure
message (something along the lines of invalid boot disk, please
replace and hit any key to retry- looks like it's BIOS initiated.)
Swop the drives over, and it will boot into ME fine, so the OS is
intact etc.
On Monday 12 July 2004 06:46 am, Craig Bowyer wrote:
Hi all,
I have a dual boot system which automatically mounts my Windows XP
partition, however, it mounts it read only. Is there a way of changing
the mounting so it can be written to as well?
Yes. But at the risk of corrupting or losing
Bryan Phinney wrote:
On Monday 12 July 2004 06:46 am, Craig Bowyer wrote:
Hi all,
I have a dual boot system which automatically mounts my Windows XP
partition, however, it mounts it read only. Is there a way of changing
the mounting so it can be written to as well?
Yes. But at the risk of
Greg, thanks for the response. As far as my reply-to
setting goes, I'm using a Web-based e-Mail client for
this list and cannot change the reply-to setting. Sorry.
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October 5, 2003 05:04 pm, Aaron West wrote:
Evening all,
Simple question here. I'm getting closer to the point of
being ready for the 9.1 install but want some opinions. Since
I'm going to dual boot with Windows 2000 (Windows with use
a
On Sunday 05 Oct 2003 11:04 pm, Aaron West wrote:
Evening all,
Simple question here. I'm getting closer to the point of
being ready for the 9.1 install but want some opinions. Since
I'm going to dual boot with Windows 2000 (Windows with use
a completely different physical hard drive, my
On Sunday 05 October 2003 07:04 pm, Aaron West wrote:
Evening all,
Simple question here. I'm getting closer to the point of
being ready for the 9.1 install but want some opinions. Since
I'm going to dual boot with Windows 2000 (Windows with use
a completely different physical hard drive,
So, are you saying that I can't install Windows on the slave drive and Linux on the
master drive? Sorry for my confusion.
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DATE: 05 Oct 2003 19:32:06 -040
From: ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 00:53:55 +
Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. Do not change which drive is the master and which the slave if you
can help it. Windows will get confused if it sees drive C change to
drive D.
There is a very simple way around this that works for Any version of
On Sunday 05 October 2003 08:54 pm, Aaron West wrote:
So, are you saying that I can't install Windows on the slave drive and Linux
on the master drive? Sorry for my confusion.
It depends on the version of Windows you are using. The 9x series (including
ME) want to be on the first primary
Johan Scheepers wrote:
Hi John,
I installed mdk9.1 three times.
Option auto / expert never came up.
Insert CD1 , run to splash screen, choose F1, run to prompt, type
expert, then enter, gives you expert install in graphical mode(or whaterver)
Option to config or skip bootloader will came up
: Saturday, June 28, 2003 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual-boot same OS
Johan Scheepers wrote:
Hi John,
I installed mdk9.1 three times.
Option auto / expert never came up.
Insert CD1 , run to splash screen, choose F1, run to prompt, type
expert, then enter, gives you expert install in graphical
-
From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual-boot same OS
Johan Scheepers wrote:
Hi John,
I installed mdk9.1 three times.
Option auto / expert never came up.
Insert CD1 , run to splash screen, choose
Johan Scheepers wrote:
So there it is hiding - on my system and CD if I press F1 the system hangs
forever and even enter will not work.
I don't know why that is happening.It must be reading of CD1 to get to
splash screen,so it's not a question of a rom drive, driver, and you
haven't even begun
At 06:59 PM 2/13/2003 +0700, you wrote:
btw thanks to FemmeFatale for the warning re Partition
Magic - I had come across that one before, dual booting
NT and 98. The workaround IIRC is to not ask PM to do
too many things at once: just because it will let you
queue up 12 or 14 tasks, it's not a
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 10:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
G'day,
Thanks to those who answered. I followed the instructions from
Lanman and Adolpho above, and got this far:
* I disconnected my 80G HDD - better safe than sorry LOL
* I fired up Partition Magic and resized the existing NTFS
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Adolfo Bello
Sent: Sunday, 9 February 2003 00:49
To: MDK Mandrake
Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual boot: pre-setup question
Trust me: I almost got a PhD in installing Windows and Mandrake this
week
On Monday 10 Feb 2003 2:18 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks to those who answered. I followed the instructions from
Lanman and Adolpho above, and got this far:
* I disconnected my 80G HDD - better safe than sorry LOL
* I fired up Partition Magic and resized the existing NTFS partition
On Monday 10 February 2003 09:18 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Adolfo Bello
Sent: Sunday, 9 February 2003 00:49
To: MDK Mandrake
Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual boot: pre-setup question
Trust me
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 03:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Adolfo Bello
Sent: Sunday, 9 February 2003 00:49
To: MDK Mandrake
Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual boot: pre-setup question
Trust me: I almost
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 07:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Snipped original post And I'm going to do something I don't do
normally... mix postings. :)
G'day,
Thanks to those who answered. I followed the instructions from
Lanman and Adolpho above, and got this far:
* I disconnected my 80G HDD
Merlin; Having done exactly what you want to do hundreds of times for clients, I can
give you this advice.
First, Set up an 8 or 10 Gb partition for Win2K. Even at 8 Gb's you're using a lot!
Unless you plan on
installing every single application known to man, 8 Gigs is plenty! Use the same
On Friday 07 February 2003 08:03 am, Merlin Zener wrote:
G'day all,
Because of weight restrictions in my baggage allowance when
I recently moved from Australia to Thailand, I was forced to
sell off my old computers and bits etc - so now I don't have
the luxury of having a whole computer I can
http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~leblancj/labs/lin_win2k_dual_boot.html
Follow the instructions, you won't go wrong. The only thing is that the NTFS
restriction he talks about is no longer there, as my system testifies!
Or you can do things a little different, as I did.
throw in a little of this below
Trust me: I almost got a PhD in installing Windows and Mandrake this
week :-)
1.- *First of all*, install Windows 2000/XP.
2.- Create a FAT32 partition to hold data that you want to read/write
with Windows and Mandrake.
3.- Install Mandrake.
It is this easy.
You will get a dual boot system.
On Saturday 08 February 2003 04:46 am, et wrote:
On Friday 07 February 2003 08:03 am, Merlin Zener wrote:
G'day all,
Because of weight restrictions in my baggage allowance when
I recently moved from Australia to Thailand, I was forced to
sell off my old computers and bits etc - so now I
On Friday 03 Jan 2003 2:49 am, Mark Mitchell wrote:
I have a machine running windows 2000 server and Mandrake 8.0
I want to upgrade to Mandrake 9. Is there anything I should beware of
before upgrading a dual boot machine. If I lose my 2000 install I will
be screwed.
- Mark
Others deal
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Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:00 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Upgrade
Problem is I have over 50 gigs of MP3's and movies on the Windows
If I do a clean install and format my Linux partitions will I still be able
to boot the windows 2000 partition through LILO?
- Mark
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Friday 03 Jan 2003 2:49 am, Mark Mitchell wrote:
I have a machine running windows 2000 server and Mandrake 8.0
I want to
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From:
Mark Mitchell
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 9:11
AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual Boot
Upgrade
If I do a clean install and format my Linux partitions will I
sti
Don't see why not. I used to have W2K and Mdk 8.2 on this box and could boot
to either from lilo.
Anne
On Friday 03 Jan 2003 2:11 pm, Mark Mitchell wrote:
If I do a clean install and format my Linux partitions will I still be
able to boot the windows 2000 partition through LILO?
- Mark
It's your choice, either remove lilo with the dos switch in which case
your left with
w2k's own boot loader or leave lilo in place (it sits in the mbr) either
way when
you come to install mandrake a new lilo will be written.
John
Mark Mitchell wrote:
If I do a clean install and format my
Buy back up to another HDD..They are CHEAP now adays...
On Thursday 02 January 2003 09:59 pm, you wrote:
Problem is I have over 50 gigs of MP3's and movies on the Windows
partition that I cant afford to lose and I have no way of backing up
that much data
- Mark
Keith wrote:
Do not mess around...BACK UP important files/folders
On Thursday 02 January 2003 08:49 pm, Mark Mitchell wrote:
I have a machine running windows 2000 server and Mandrake 8.0
I want to upgrade to Mandrake 9. Is there anything I should beware of
before upgrading a dual boot machine. If I
Title: Message
I have
done this several times without any problem.
Adolfo
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AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [newbie]
Dual Boot
Keith wrote:
Buy back up to another HDD..They are CHEAP now adays...
On Thursday 02 January 2003 09:59 pm, you wrote:
Problem is I have over 50 gigs of MP3's and movies on the Windows
partition that I cant afford to lose and I have no way of backing up
that much data
-
Do not mess around...BACK UP important files/folders
On Thursday 02 January 2003 08:49 pm, Mark Mitchell wrote:
I have a machine running windows 2000 server and Mandrake 8.0
I want to upgrade to Mandrake 9. Is there anything I should beware of
before upgrading a dual boot machine. If I
Problem is I have over 50 gigs of MP3's and movies on the Windows partition
that I cant afford to lose and I have no way of backing up that much data
- Mark
Keith wrote:
Do not mess around...BACK UP important files/folders
On Thursday 02 January 2003 08:49 pm, Mark Mitchell wrote:
lf Of Mark MitchellSent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:00
PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual Boot
Upgrade
Problem is I have over 50 gigs of MP3's and movies on the Windows
partition that I cant afford to lose and I have no way of backing up that much
data- MarkK
Felix Underhill wrote:
I'm still confused on the same point:
Some people talk about copying the boot record (the first 512 bytes
from the linux partition) and copying it to the windows partition.
Other people seem to be saying that linux will sort out the booting
and never mention
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Subject: Re: [newbie] dual boot M8.2 and XP suggestion
Hi,
I may be wrong about this... but I beleive that it depends
on whether the XP is on NTFS or not. My friend installed
Linux
Hi,
I may be wrong about this... but I beleive that it depends
on whether the XP is on NTFS or not. My friend installed
Linux with XP on fat32 without any special precautions
(like not installing lilo on MBR) and he didn't have any
problems. I did the same thing with XP on NTFS and ended up
On Wednesday 31 July 2002 13:06, Anand wrote:
I may be wrong about this... but I beleive that it depends
on whether the XP is on NTFS or not. My friend installed
Linux with XP on fat32 without any special precautions
(like not installing lilo on MBR) and he didn't have any
problems. I did
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 03:32:48 -0400
Charles P. Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I presently am dual booting Win98SE and Win2K on a 9 or 10GB HDD. I also
have a 40GB drive with apps and data, partitioned into 9 1/2 GB chunks.
I like Win2K, but it will be my last M$ OS (XP turns me off and
Charles P. Conrad wrote:
I presently am dual booting Win98SE and Win2K on a 9 or 10GB HDD. I
also have a 40GB drive with apps and data, partitioned into 9 1/2 GB
chunks.
I like Win2K, but it will be my last M$ OS (XP turns me off and
Palladium scares me) and would like to replace 98SE,
On Tuesday 30 July 2002 09:06 am, you wrote:
On Tuesday 30 July 2002 02:00 am, Kenneth wrote:
I recommend not dual booting XP and Mandrake.. You have to remember
Microsoft is not too friendly.. I had a hard enough time with Windows
ME and Mandrake 8.2
In the case of Mandrake 8.1, I am
I'm still confused on the same point:
Some people talk about copying the boot record (the first 512 bytes from the
linux partition) and copying it to the windows partition. Other people seem
to be saying that linux will sort out the booting and never mention copying
the boot record or
I recommend not dual booting XP and Mandrake.. You have to remember
Microsoft is not too friendly.. I had a hard enough time with Windows ME and
Mandrake 8.2
Kenneth Spress
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This is not a spam! Your are receiving this
Norman,
You don't need to edit boot.ini LILO will boot XP for you. Did you
install XP first or second? If Linux went in last, your boot loader
install should have given you a lilo entry for both XP and Linux. If
this isn't the case (sounds like it), then you can either add whatever
lilo
you have to put /boot on /dev/hda, I put my in the first 150mb of my hard
disk and then I created a Partition for Windows XP about 5gb and then the
rest is for Linux
/
/home
/var
/swap
/tmp
etc... and then I use LILO as my boot manager. Also make sure you use
FDISK to make the 150mb
Norman Zhang wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to dual boot Linux Mandrake 8.2 with XP. XP runs on the primary
disk, and LM 8.2 runs on the secondary disk. They are both on the IDE slot
1. I put LILO on hdb. Would someone please tell me how I can edit boot.ini
to make it boot for both OS?
Regards,
Norman
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 21:59:14 -0500 (EST)
JOHN HEMMER [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration:
I have a dual boot system. Windows on the first partition
and the Linux and Swap partitions follow. I had to reformat
and reinstall the Windows-98 partition; what else is new!
Anyway, when I use to
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Michael Scottaline wrote:
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 21:59:14 -0500 (EST)
JOHN HEMMER [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration:
I have a dual boot system. Windows on the first partition
and the Linux and Swap partitions follow. I had to reformat
and reinstall the
On Friday 07 December 2001 05:10, you wrote:
Dear All,
I am considering either going with vmware in Linux or doing a dual boot
with Win95 and LM 8.1. I know that everyone says to always install Windows
first, however may I install it now somehow without erasing my Linux 8.1 if
I use the
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 05:10:37 -0500
Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear All,
I am considering either going with vmware in Linux or doing a dual boot with
Win95 and LM 8.1. I know that everyone says to always install Windows first,
however may I install it now somehow without erasing my
11:41 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual boot with Windows 95 LM 8.1
On Friday 07 December 2001 05:10, you wrote:
Dear All,
I am considering either going with vmware in Linux or doing a dual boot
with Win95 and LM 8.1. I know that everyone says to always install
Windows
first, however may I
On Friday 07 December 2001 11:10, you wrote:
Dear All,
I am considering either going with vmware in Linux or doing a dual boot
with Win95 and LM 8.1. I know that everyone says to always install Windows
first, however may I install it now somehow without erasing my Linux 8.1 if
I use the
I too am a System Commander fan, (have been for years) and tried to use it
to boot Mandrake 8.1 along with Win98 and Win2000. I had the MS OSs loaded
first, however, and tried to load Mandrake afterwards. The results were
disastrous: I lost both MS installations as Mandrakes's installer
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On Sunday 30 September 2001 08:11 am, Doug Anderson wrote:
Does the Linux utility that creates the partitions
, 30 September 2001 11:42 PM
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Subject: Re: Fw: Re: [newbie] Dual Boot with XP?
On Sunday 30 September 2001 15:46, Charles A Edwards wrote:
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On Sunday 30 September 2001 15:46, Charles A Edwards wrote:
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual Boot with XP?
On Sun, 30 Sep 2001 09:11:50 -0400
Doug Anderson [EMAIL
On Sunday 30 September 2001 15:59, Dave Sherman wrote:
On Sunday 30 September 2001 08:11 am, Doug Anderson wrote:
Does the Linux utility that creates the partitions when LM is installed
over an existing Windows partition care what is in the Windows
partition? She would prefer to wait a few
rambling for the evening... :-)
rgds
Frank
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Sent: Sunday, 30 September 2001 11:47 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Dave Sherman
Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual Boot with XP?
On Sunday 30 September 2001 15:59
On Sun, 30 Sep 2001 17:41:40 +0200
civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 30 September 2001 15:46, Charles A Edwards wrote:
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Dual
On Wednesday 22 August 2001 07:34, Matt wrote:
I'm having problems dual booting mandrake with win2000. It can boot
in linux or 2000, but it defaults in to linux if you don't scroll down
and select windows2000. Do you know of a way where the boot screen
can default to windows2000. It boots
Try editing /etc/lilo.conf - you will find (at a guess) that the last entry
in the list is windoze 2000. Move it to the top of the list and save the
changes.
Then run /sbin/lilo
Give it a try.
Michael
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to
matt conran wrote:
Hi
I'm having problems dual booting mandrake with win2000. It can boot in
linu or 2000, but it defaults in to linux if you don't scroll down and
select windows2000. Do you know of a way where the boot screen can
default to windows2000. It boots into a linux gui first
KDE and probably Gnome also have X-client interfaces to the
boot parameters. Go to Mankdrake Control Center and look under
bootup settings. You'll find some funky dialog boxes letting
you pick the default boot OS.
Kirby
At 11:36 AM 8/22/2001 -0500, Matt Greer wrote:
matt conran wrote:
I guess I'll take a crack at this one! :0) So here goes.
Having had one of my machines set up as a Dual boot at one point, I've
encountered several different things. I've also installed different
distros, but I'll try and stick with the Mandrake info here.
First of all let's start with the
Hey guys,
I've had a bunch of people ask me if anyone solved this problem, since they
are encountering it too, so I figured I would resend the question w/o all my
random other info:
I am trying to dual boot a win98 and Mandrake 7.2 system. Lilo can't
install (b/c I assume it is
past the
apr
From: Ammon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:43:13 -0700
The trouble is that I did install Windows first, Linux second allowing
LILO to write over the boot s
This is because you are not booting from the disk. You must boot from the
Dos disk and then do a fdisk /mbr.
Moose
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From: Ammon Cooke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 1:41 PM
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How
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This is because you are not booting from the disk. You must boot from the
Dos disk and then do a fdisk /mbr.
Moose
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From: Ammon Cooke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 1:41 PM
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That's how my system is set up and it works fine (however I
am
using GRUB).
apr
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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:43:13 -0700
The trouble is that I
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I dont think you want to do it this way. I believe win2k and win98 use
diffeerent mbr records. If you replace you win2k boot parition with a
win98 one, I
my system is set up and it works fine
(however I am
using GRUB).
apr
From: Ammon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:43:13 -0700
The trouble is that I did i
It is a common misconception... Don't worry.
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From: Nadin Merali [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 3:07 PM
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Subject: RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble
SHIT
I wish i knew before
oh well
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Kelly
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Subject: RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble
I dont think you want to do it this way. I believe win2k and win98 use
diffeerent mbr records. If you replace you win2k boot parition with a
win98 one, I dont think it will be very happy
to make winnt startup disk go to the hell and search
:20 PM
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Subject: RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble
I dont think you want to do it this way. I believe win2k and win98 use
diffeerent mbr records. If you replace you win2k boot parition with a
win98 one, I dont think it will be very happy
to make winnt startup disk go
using
GRUB).
apr
From: Ammon Cooke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Trouble
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:43:13 -0700
The trouble is that I did install Windows first, Linux second allowing
LILO to write over the boot sector
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