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
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
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 that 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