On Friday 12 November 2004 06:09 am, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > That should not have been affected. Just edit /etc/lilo.conf to > include a suitable stanza pointing at your windows partition and > re-run lilo before rebooting. If it was only a re-install in the > same place, I'd expect your old lilo.conf to still work. > > -- > richard > > Booting into Windows was not a problem. It's re-establing all the > programs that have to be in the registry. I had installed > conflicting programs and finally had to go the recovery CDROM and > blow away the Windows directory. The fix also restored the MBR which > wiped out LILO. > > Restoring LILO to the MBR (since /etc/lilo.conf was already > edited) was all that was necessary. Windows was and is the problem. > As I learn to use Debian GNU/Linux, I'll use Windows less and less. > For example, I'm learning how to use KMail under woody.
AFAIK,Windows needs to be installed first, only because it will always wipe the mbr and put a Windows version there. You can work around that with the suggestions already given, it just saves the hassle by doing Windows first. > > Thanks anyway. The rest of my questions, being all Windows mess, > will be directed at the local PC Users Group which run mainly > Windows. > > Sincerely, > (Mr.) Gayle Lee Fairless -- Greg C. Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
