I neglected to mention one little detail. When I bought the computer it
came with windows98 installed one harddrive and a second unformatted
drive. I did a new install of SuSE onto the second harddrive. This
effectively made windows unavailable. I have not done anything to the
first drive other than mount it as a fat partition. Would it be possible
to resurrect this windows installation and have it live in harmony with
my current installation of SuSE?
mike
> Yes, well, I'm a Pastor at a conservative church that think doctrine
matters;
> so naturally everyone thinks I'm a heretic. It's nice to pass the
buck once
> in a while ;-)
>
> I don't know suse from a hole in the wall, so beyond editing
/etc/lilo.conf
> by hand and running lilo as root I can't help you. But it seems to me
that
> yast should have something in it's workings to edit the boot config.
Let me
> just say that I would be utterly shocked if it didn't.
>
> Other than that, since you're a newbie, you may want to backup
lilo.conf via:
>
> mv lilo.conf lilo.backup
>
> and then read the man page on lilo.conf:
>
> man lilo.conf
>
> to edit your boot configuration by hand. Just remember if you go this
way
> you'll have to run "lilo" to get the updated configuration installed.
>
> Also, if you're going to install win98, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A BOOT
DISK. Win98
> will OVER-WRITE your mbr and lilo will be GONE. What you'l have to do is
> after win98 is installed boot from your boot disk and run "lilo" as
root in
> the shell. That'll reinstall lilo on the master boot record.
>
> Anything I'm missing gang?
>
> Wes
>
>
> On Thursday 24 October 2002 12:17 pm, Michael Long wrote:
> > It is not easy being a heretic scum but someone has to do it... :)
> >
> > I am using SuSE 7.3 and would like to install windblows 98. I don't have
> > 2000 and NT does not support usb.
> >
> > mike
> >
> > > Mike,
> > > DIE, DIE, HERETIC SCUM!
> > >
> > > OK, now that I've got that out of my system ;-) what distro are you
> >
> > using? I
> >
> > > know that Mandrake has a lilo conf tool that will basically do it for
> > > you.
> > >
> > > Wes
> > >
