I know this is a little bit of a late response, but for anyone who does dual-boot windows and linux this might come in handy. When windows gets to be icky, and linux is still running just fine (funny how that happens isn't it) and you need to reinstall windows 98 (i bet this works on ME as well) rather than just setting up windows, from a dos prompt run "setup /ir" and that should make it not update the MBR, and therefore you don't have to reinstall lilo or whatever other boot manager you happen to be using. On Wed, 07 Mar 2001, Simeon Johnston wrote: > Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 13:29:17 -0600 > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > From: Simeon Johnston <simeonuj at eetc.com> > Reply-To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Sender: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] more installation fun > > NO no no no no! > I have dual booted linux with win-crappy several times and you always > install > windows first. With 95/98/ME Lilo has to go into the MBR but with > NT/2000 you > should use the win bootloader. There are several howtos on this and I > can dig > through my bookmarks to find them if you can't. > Using the NT/2000 bootloader will minimize the chances that it will > really mess > something up. And you can reload windows ( and we all know you will > sooner or > later, probably sooner ) without disturbing your Linux partiontion or > LILO. > So you install LILO on the first Linux partition and leave the MBR alone > if > using NT or 2000. > If you ever go to ME/98/95 you can always rerun LILO to install into the > MBR. > I have used this method several times and it worked great everytime. > Just > remember to always have a boot floppy ready to go. :-) > > sim > > > Jurupari wrote: > > > > version. But my question is how would I go about the installation > order? > > > > I would definitely install Windows first. I have done this a number > > of times, and I have always had Linux place LILO on the mbr of the > > first HDD. Just be sure to make a Linux boot floppy to have around > > after you install Linux. If you ever go back and upgrade your version > > of Windows from 95-98 or 2000 etc, that will overwrite LILO I think. > > Same thing if you sys the drive. If that happens you can use your > > boot disk to get into Linux and rerun LILO. > > > > > Should I install linux first and then redhat or the other way around. > My > > > primary concern is that problem that LILO has about not booting if > the root > > > partition is beyond some 10xx sector on the drive, so using a floppy > to > > > > I think the latest versions of LILO no longer have that restriction > > but I am not sure. > > > > Mike > > > > _______________________________________________ > > tclug-list mailing list > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list