Re: setting up multi boot system

2000-06-12 Thread ktb
I just got home from work, sorry for the late reply. I've only installed Windows and Linux on a single disk once. Maybe someone with a little more experience in this area could step up to the plate? Anyway have you read the installation instructions at -- http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/i38

Re: setting up multi boot system

2000-06-12 Thread Ron Rademaker
You can get multiboot using lilo, that'll give you what you want, here's a little example (my own lilo.conf) (I removed uninteresting things): image=/boot/bzImage-2.4.0-test1c1 label=2.4.0-test1c1 read-only image=/boot/bzImage-2.2.15c1 label=2.2.15c1 read-only image

Re: setting up multi boot system

2000-06-12 Thread David Dodson
I have one hard drive that ive already partitioned. I was going to setup debian on the un used half. So you see I can't unpulg my hard disk. Will this be a problem? It sounds like you will have Debian on one drive and Windows on another. You can use 'lilo' to boot one or the other. There s

Re: setting up multi boot system

2000-06-12 Thread Arthur H. Edwards
I have set up several dual-boot systems (linux-windows3.1, linux-NT, and linux-w98). If you have partition magic, I have had success shrinking the vfat partition and creating linux partitions. However, if the linux partition is far from the master boot-block, then you will, I think, need to use a b

Re: setting up multi boot system

2000-06-12 Thread ktb
David Dodson wrote: > > Hello > I've never run any kind of other operating system besides windows and I was > considering setting up debian on one of my workstations at the office since > its the only place I have computer and internet access. I still need to > keep windows and absolutely under n