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

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