Absolutely! I'm guessing you rejumpered the drives to make the second drive
the primary. I'd recommend using grub as your boot loader. You can install
it in the MBR of the drive that has Windows on it, rejumper the drives, and
simply change /etc/mtab to reflect the new state of the world.

Grub is nice, in that it allows you to tweak your boot "ini" file during the
boot process in case you made a mistake. Check out the HOWTOs at
www.tldp.org on how to setup dual boot.

--Skip

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org]On
> Behalf Of Michael Long
> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 1:34 PM
> To: wlug@mail.wlug.org
> Subject: Re: [Wlug] Installfest
>
>
> 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
> > > >
>
>
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Sure will. I know that YaST has a tool for Lilo config under the System Administration tool; just use that to set things up and you should be golden. Obviously, select the drive with the Windows install on it for the partition. Not sure where this functionality is hiding in YaST 2/graphical YaST, as the only place I have SuSE at the moment is on my server, and it decidedly does NOT like doing X forwarding for some reason.

-----Original Message----- From: wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-admin@mail.wlug.org]On Behalf Of Michael Long Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 1:34 PM To: wlug@mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] Installfest

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