[techtalk] Dual Boot

[moebius at ip-solutions.net]

Hey All,
  You don't need 'liloconf' to do it. Just run 'lilo' usually in /usr/sbin
you will see it says something like '* Added Linux'. 
Regards,

Harry Hoffman
Product Systems Specialist
Restaurants Unlimited Inc.
206.634.3082 x. 270

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Nathan T. Lynch wrote:

> On my Red Hat 6.1 box (on which I installed every package except for
> some foreign-language docs):
> 
> [root at dolphy /root]# which liloconfig
> which: no liloconfig in
> (/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin)
> 
> So I think the chances of it being in Mandrake are iffy.
> 
> <sigh> yet another reason to move to debian...  I could have _used_
> liloconfig when I was trying to dual-boot Linux and FreeBSD.
> 
> Nathan
> 
> Nicole Zimmerman wrote:
> > 
> > I believe, even in this case, you can run liloconfig
> > (/usr/sbin/liloconfig here) to overwrite the MBR at any time after linux
> > is installed (unless liloconfig doesn't "come" with mandrake, but I
> > believe it's 'standard' within a distributed version of lilo). It does
> > the same thing lilo does on first install (asks you "Install a boot
> > block using your current LILO configuration?")... at least here in debian-ville.
> > 
> > -nicole
> > 
> > "Nathan T. Lynch" wrote:
> > >
> > > It's probably better to do the Win2k install first, then Mandrake, so
> > > you can install LILO in the MBR.  LILO will be overwritten if you do the
> > > Win2k install second, I reckon.  (Unless w2k is nicer than its
> > > predecessors.)
> > >
> > > Nathan
> > 
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