Re: Installing Windows with Debian already installed

2012-02-26 Thread Gustavo J Mata
Hi Hans The rescue mode of the Debian Live CD has a grub installer. In the end all I had to do is give it the device file for the hard disk. I'm not sure if Windows did appear in the grub menu after reinstalling. But I ran grub-update and it did show the next time around. Since the rescue mode

Re: Installing Windows with Debian already installed

2012-02-26 Thread Brian
On Sun 26 Feb 2012 at 13:02:47 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Wow. Your message came as a separate base64 encoded attachment. > Whatever you did when you sent it please try to do something different > next time. Is that what happened? With Mutt I did 'v' and copied and pasted. But forgot to tell vim

Re: Installing Windows with Debian already installed

2012-02-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> I've no idea what Windows does when it installs but if it leaves the > other partitions undisturbed you should be able to get Debian running > and put GRUB back on the hard disk's 2nd try, hope it is better Hi Gustavo, in this case I am using R.I.P. (Rescue is Possible), which is a livefile-

Re: Installing Windows with Debian already installed

2012-02-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
> I've no idea what Windows does when it installs but if it leaves the > other partitions undisturbed you should be able to get Debian running > and put GRUB back on the hard disk's Hi Gustavo, in this case I am using R.I.P. (Rescue is Possible), which is a livefile-CD for those purposes. Also

Re: Installing Windows with Debian already installed

2012-02-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Wow. Your message came as a separate base64 encoded attachment. Whatever you did when you sent it please try to do something different next time. Gustavo J Mata wrote: > I recently installed Debian on a new hard disk. Although I rarely used > Windows I kept a 20 Gb partition to install it, just i

Re: Installing Windows with Debian already installed

2012-02-26 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Sonntag, 26. Februar 2012 schrieb Brian: > On Sun 26 Feb 2012 at 13:34:12 -0430, Gustavo J Mata wrote: > > I recently installed Debian on a new hard disk. Although I rarely used > Windows I kept a 20 Gb partition to +install it, just in case. > > I've found out that if I do install Windows, I

Re: Installing Windows with Debian already installed

2012-02-26 Thread Brian
On Sun 26 Feb 2012 at 13:34:12 -0430, Gustavo J Mata wrote: I recently installed Debian on a new hard disk. Although I rarely used Windows I kept a 20 Gb partition to +install it, just in case. I've found out that if I do install Windows, I won't be able to boot Debian. Although it appears that t