new installation -- install lilo after making boot floppy

[John Schmidt <jas@netbrick.com>]

Hi,

I just installed GNU/Linux using the compact boot floppies onto my 
boss's windows 98 computer.  He has 2 hard drives, the first, hda 
devoted to windows 98, and the second drive hdb devoted to linux.  
At the end of the installation, when it says make the system bootable, I 
decided to go ahead and make a boot floppy instead of overwriting the 
MBR with lilo (if that is the right terminology).  I was afraid of 
making his machine unbootable with windows 98 and the boot floppy 
approach seemed to be the safe route.  After making the boot floppy, I 
rebooted and finished the installation (I should note that booting from 
the floppy was painfully slow, is this normal?), and everything seemed 
fine.  However, I would like to go ahead and use lilo and install 
things in the MBR of the first hard drive hda (now used by windows 98) 
and let lilo control the booting of either windows or linux.  

Is there an easy way to get lilo set up so that it can boot up either 
windows 98 or linux?  Do I need to run just lilo or do I also have to 
run mbr-activate?  I have read through the installation guide and have 
taken a look at the Manual.txt.gz in the lilo documentation.  It seems 
that the install program makes setting up lilo fairly easy (during 
installation) and wondered if I should go back to the installer to make 
the system bootable, or do it from the command line after editing 
/etc/lilo.conf.

Note, I have installed the compact flavor (i386) on a single drive 
system that was just running Debian and on a mac 68K and powerpc, but 
don't have any experience with lilo in a dual boot situation.  I don't 
want to render my bosses windows 98 setup unusable if I can certainly 
help it.  Any guidance would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,

John Schmidt
jas@netbrick.com