On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 01:59:22PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > It would be even easier to co-install with Windows > > if the installer would have option to automatically keep > > the Windows MBR and perform the following process: > > 1. install grub (or whatever boot manager) in root partition > For this, please choose an expert install and choose not to install > any bootloader. > Then tweak your boot loader options. It should be possible to tell grub-installer to install to the partition instead of to the mbr. > > 2. mount the windows partition to, say, /mnt > > 3. copy the boot sector with dd if=/dev/xxx of=/mnt/xxx-bootsect.bin > > 4. append to /mnt/boot.ini a line C:\xxx-bootsect.bin="Debian Etch > > (testing)" > > 5. unmount /mnt > Nope. The installer will never ever mess with another operating system > install/files. > Such settings have to be made manually by the local administrator. Well, never say never :); but the real difficulty is that we don't have stable NTFS write support from Linux. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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