Hi I would just install debian, and configure lilo in MBR on hda. That would not destroy windoze bootloader, just take controll over it:)
If you later want's to remove debian and lilo, you can just boot up with a win98 boot/startupdisk and run "fdisk /mbr". That's it. Good Luck /ernst On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Quenten Griffith wrote: > Hello all I am setting up a dual boot machine for a friend of mine who > wants to give Linux a go, he has to 20 gig hard drives hda being where > win2k resides, and hdb is broken up to two 10 gig partions. hdb1 being > swap hdb3 being / on the first 9gig. The other 10gig is fat32 for > storage space in windows. He does not want to lose the win2k boot > loader just in case he doesn't like linux, that way he can remove linux > with out messing up his MBR on hda. So I installed Debian and told Lilo > to go on hdb3 and to write a MBR to hdb then I boot into it with the > boot floppy and do a dd if=/devhdb of=/tmp/debian.bin bs=512 count=1 and > then I take the .bin file and boot into windows and place it in the c:\ > and edit boot.ini accordinly. After that I boot up and select debian > and I get a black screen with MBR=FA3 or something along that lines and > I can't do anything. So I then tried the same dd statement but used > /dev/hdb3 and I get a screen full of 0 and 1's when I try to boot of > that bin. Do I need to make a sepreate boot partition on /dev/hdb for > Debian and then do the dd statment with the boot partion? I want ot > make sure I get it right next time so that he won't give up on Linux. > Thanks all. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
