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RE: Help installing Debian 2.2r3



Title: RE: Help installing Debian 2.2r3

How did you do it?  Also, do you have Win2000 on your first drive and then Debian on your second drive?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rino Mardo [mailto:rmardo@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 6:16 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r17
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:16:46PM +1000 or thereabouts,
> Matthew Dalton wrote:
> > Hall Stevenson wrote:
> >
> > > No worries here... Using seperate physical drives makes things
> > > much easier. This will actually be a LILO 'issue', but it can
> > > handle it just fine. One thing: Install Lilo to your 'first'
> > > (/dev/hdaX) hard disk's MBR.
> >
> > Don't install LILO to the MBR! If Windows 2000 is anything
> like NT (it
> > is supposed to be NT 5, after all), you will need to setup
> Linux to boot
> > from the Windows 2000 bootloader.
> >
> > If you install LILO to the MBR, you will likely render your
> Windows 2000
> > installation unbootable.
> >
> <...snipped...>
> i object! always wanted to say that. :-)
>
> i have win2k, linux, freebsd on my box and i use lilo to boot each OS.
>
> letting the win2k bootloader to boot your linux partition
> will only make it
> hard for you should you choose to recompile your kernel.
>


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