Re: help

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Chris Lale wrote:
> patrick bourne wrote:
>
> > From: "Patrick Bourne" <bon2112@peoplepc.com>
> > To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> > Subject: help with installation
> > Date: Thursday, March 23, 2006 11:23 AM
> >
> > Hello,   I have recently downloaded the businesscard
> > image for the stable release of the debian OS. 
> > [...]
> [...]
> 4. The Grub bootloader will be installed automatically. Whenever you 
> boot in future, the Grub screen will pop up and you can choose which 
> system to boot.

Since Patrick is using Win98, he doesn't really *need* Grub to boot. He
can install and use loadlin. Loadlin can load linux from within DOS and
DOS-based OSs such as Win98.

Loadlin doesn't work inside of NT-based OSs such as WinNT or XP, but it
should work fine in Win98. Using loadlin, you don't have to modify
Window's MBR.