A much simpler solution is to say yes to making the system bootable, at which point you're give the option of installing in /boot rather than the mbr. after doing that, you can grab the required info from that partition and configure windows correctly.
Eventually this will be described at http://www.acooke.org/andrew/writing/x31.html Cheers, Andrew andrew cooke said: > > Hi, > > How do I jiggle things (via the second console) so that when the installer > writes a boot floppy, it actually writes to an image? > > I have tried making an image and mounting it via loopback, but the > installer gives the error "dbootstrap[16]: error getting floppy geometry > from /dev/fd0". is there some way I can specify this in the image? > > The reason I ask is that I am in the middle of a network install to an IBM > X31 laptop. The MBR already has a windows installer that I don't want to > lose and the laptop has no disk drive (neither floppy nor CD). > > Thanks, > Andrew > > -- > http://www.acooke.org/andrew > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- http://www.acooke.org/andrew -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
