Hi Wayne.

06-Dec-03 08:17:00, Wayne Chirnside wrote to Charles Angelich


  -=> CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 WC>> Trivially easy!

 CA>> Nothing wrong with that, I like trivial and easy. ;-)

 WC>> Now to see if I can clean up the mess I've made of partitioning
 WC>> the drive to proceed or better yet acquiring a new hard drive in
 WC>> January.

 WC>> I've come around to your way of thinking as regards to keeping
 WC>> Windows and Linux separate.

 CA>> I like them on separate machines. ;-)

 WC> Don't have two heavy duty machines at the moment. I just won't
 WC> configure to mount HDA on boot and Windows should be out of risk
 WC> save for the dual boot setup.

 WC>> ITMT I can clear one of the the partitions where my configuration
 WC>> data is kept and look into installing an OLR, resave and proceed
 WC>> from there when I get the new drive.

 CA>> You need the OLR, InfoZip, and a telnet with zmodem
 CA>> up/downloading. I use ztelnet with my mini-installs.

 WC> Knoppix has telnet and I can already write online. There's a Linux
 WC> InfoZip? I use Pkzip 2.50 in DOS here.

yeah, just called called "zip"

 WC> I didn't see LinLoader in there but something about GRUB,
 WC> something I'll have to look into. If Windows get clobbered... oh
 WC> well .

install Grub in the MBR (/dev/HDa), follow the instructuions to tell it you
have a windows install on /dev/hda1

otoh there's a way to tell the NT boot loader about your linux install- you
could do it that way instead if you want.

 -=> Bye <=-

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