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Originally posted by Xochipilli2012: Quote: Greetings! .... How to install Windows 98 on HD1 (the 80 G drive I just installed and formatted) without writing over the MBR on HD0 and mucking up Lilo, etc.? .... The problem w/ this scenario is that all MSFT OS need to have their boot files on the primary master. Short of resetting the BIOS focus (re:primary master) w/ each boot, you need to put some effort into this proposed config. You might load 98 as described (i.e set the BIOS to recognize the 80 as the primary master) and then move the XP boot files to that root directory. Reconfigure Lilo and then run it..

Ok, I've come to grips w/ the GRUB config,,, I put XP back up on C: and allowed GRUB to load to the MBR (for my Debian on the slave) thus, if I blow (umm, when) my debian install, fdisk /MBR will give me a working XP... So, now my problem is xserver fails,,, I believe because I was unable to tell it which video (onboard nvidia or pci ATI card) to use. I have since listed the bus location w/ 'lspci' and found the ATI to be at 0000:00:14.0 My question is, how to get back to a config setup proggie that will invite me to enter this location. I have seen the invitation during the install,,, if I can't figure this out (w/ help, perhaps), I'll partition and load again <sigh> ~tia

Originally posted by danleff: Quote: .... The stock 2.4.XX kernel should give you what you need to get started. You can add other entries to 2.6 later on to Grub when you get comfortable with everything and install the image. Thank you for your thoughful response. The sense of it is clear and sound.. obvious, now, even to me Quote: The link to the dual boot with boot.ini on 2000 or XP systems is here... You may want to take a look at it before you decide what to do. Excellent,,, I've printed out this page,,, great info. Quote: Debian generally is a bit more complicated than the recent distros, such as Mandrake and Fedora, which offer you a quick easy GUI interface... I'm done with quick and easy I'm going w/ the installer I got a taste of the apt-get (w/ synaptic), having built the system of choice (just missed finishing it properly). I havn't been so enthused w/ my OS since I figured out how to have my Win95 handle a dial-up script and tcp/ip config, thereby, obviating the 'isp' software bundle ) Having, finally, mastered Win*, I'm ready to move up to a real OS and feel free to fit others w/ the software tools they need to learn/work w/out fear of MSFT looking over their shoulders or the high costs of joing MSFT's interpretation of the information age ~thank you, again

Originally posted by danleff: Quote: ... and add XP to grub or add Debian to the boot.ini. Did you do a floppy boot disk as well? I was hoping for the latter, however, I've since blown that install and the one that followed (removing Grub from the MBR is not as easy as some would imply I've spent the time, since then, rebuilding and finishing web work due today. Sooo, now I'm ready for another run at it. I'm thinking I'd like to go with the latest beta and 2.6 (reiser on / and ext2 on /home) so that I might become familiar enough that I can 'roll-my-own' w/ Progeny.. Quote: I'll look up the link for the boot.ini file edit later, if you would like. Thank you for your time and effort. I assume the boot floppy (which I was not able to download seperately for some reason) has a file or two on it that I can load to my xp,,, and have that point to Debian by way of my boot.ini?? Will the 'linux26' entry to the install dialog request eventually offer to create a boot floppy?? Thank you again for you time ~regards

Hi, I've loaded Debain to my slave w/ Grub to its boot record. Is there a 'simple' entry for my boot.ini (xp on master primary) that will redirect the boot loader to grub (i.e. load debian)??? ~tia