I would do that, but there is one main problem that i can't remember if i mentioned way back in the beginning...I have my three hard drives on a Promise UDMA66 card...and my DVD and CD burner are on the motherboard. So...maybe that's the problem my BIOS is having. It could be conflicting with my Promise card's BIOS and not knowing which drive to boot up, so the BIOS overrides anything else. I might be stuck with trying GRUB...but not much is going on there either...I made a GRUB boot disk...and when it boots, it doesn't give me a menu or anything...just says "GRUB >". I'll get Linux on this machine one way or another. Just don't know the best way to go about doing it. I have a backup of Win2000, and the rest of the drive, so that isn't a problem(not that I know of). Anyone out there have a Promise card, and had Windows2000 installed first, then tried to install Debian? If you did, please let me know how the heck you got it installed. The help would be GREATLY appreciated!!! :)) I'm not giving up...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: csj [mailto:csj@mindgate.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 3:24 PM
> To: LaGuardia, Kristofer S.
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Help installing Debian 2.2r3 (formerly 2.2r17 - brain
> misfire )
>
>
> On Wed, 5 Sep 2001 10:32:13 -0600
> "LaGuardia, Kristofer S." <KSLaGuardia@isecinc.com> wrote:
>
> > Believe me, I don't want to give up on Debian. I would
> really really
> like
> > to get it up and running. My biggest problem is Win2000 is
> installed
> on the
> > C drive, or first drive, and Debian is installed on the D drive. I
> would
> > like to stay with LILO if possible. I'm about to break down and
> install it
> > onto the same drive as Win2000. I'll just make another partition on
> it...I
> > have 20 gigs free on it so I don't have a problem with installing
> something
> > else on it. Then some of the tutorials and the installation might
> make
> > sense.
>
> If you're that desperate, I suggest just going to the bios and
> temporarily tagging drive C as "uninstalled." That way it won't boot
> even if you can't get LILO to dual boot. Just install your
> bootloader on
> drive D (hdb), and forget that drive C exists. I once did that in my
> dark Window$ days so I can get two different Window$ installations to
> live in peace and harmony. Now if you want Bill back, just go to the
> bios and do the reverse, tag D as "uninstalled" and C as "installed."
>