[techtalk] Linux - Windows System

[WolfRyder]

At 06:19 PM 2/27/01 -0500, Patrick Ouellet wrote:

Let me clarify. 1st I didn't want to lose everything on my SuSE box by 
having to put Windows on 1st.  and 2nd I've had HDs go bad on me before and 
didn't want to lose BOTH OSs. Call me paranoid, but I've had to reinstall 
windows a heck of a lot more often than Linux. I've done it both ways 
(shared vs separate) and I prefer separate.

It's also easier to have 2 HDs because of the size of winproducts 
bloatware. Now, if a person has a 30gig or larger HD, then room is a moot 
point.

And yes, when I had trouble with win98 and no matter how many times I 
reinstalled it, it never worked correctly, I reformated my HD and started 
clean. So reinstalling Linux was necessary.

Carol


>Just a little thing here...
>Why do you say you must reinstall Suse when you reinstall windows...
>this can be done without re-installing Linux..
>
>Corrrect me if Im wrong but all you need is a linux boot disk.
>Once you have re-installed windoze, it always without any kind of warning
>remplace your boot sector, so you boot with your bootdisk
>then issue the lilo command and lilo is re-installed as it was before...