On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 07:15:41PM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > I'm going to do a fresh install of Mandrake 8.1 on a dual boot system with > > WinXP. I've read that making a 7mg /boot partition makes it easy to use > > the Windows boot.ini file to choose operating systems. > > you don't need that, with recent versions of LILO, and a BIOS made in the > last few years. > the way it works (if I remember correctly..) is that you make your / > partition the location of the linux MBR; then use dd to take the first 512 > bytes of that, and make your boot file from it. > so basically: > dd if=/dev/hda2 of=linboot.img bs=512 count=1 > then copy the resulting 512-byte linboot.img file to your windows partition, > and add an entry in your boot.ini file for it. I seem to remember actually > doing this myself, at some point; and it was really simple and quick to do. > > at that point, Linux becomes one of the options on your (NT|w2k|xp) boot > menu. That of course depends on what os you boot mostly from. I "migrated" my wife to Linux with two things: I showed her that a locked-up browser need not to take down the whole box and I put the default boot option to "Linux", so "Enter" or "wait" meant Linux... or another reboot. florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 230 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011104/03b49645/attachment.pgp