[kuki]

belgther, on May 28 2005, 01:40 PM, said:

kuki5, on May 28 2005, 01:45 PM, said:

how will you use lilo command when the whole deal is that we are trying to recover lilo

:ph34r: recovering the recovered tool by this tool� :unsure:

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By booting the distribution by a boot disk or CD.

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i wrote about it in my 1st post in this thread :huh:

[mekros]

to the orig poster:
tldp has some good docs.

using lilo

using grub

read this too.

[Meads]

I managed to get SimplyMepis Dual booting alongside windows xp ive tryed getting the modem to work from the guides on the internet but they just dont explain enough for me to understand it, would be great if someone could explain it in a simple manner lol

[bonarez]

it has been said before, getting an usb-modem working can be a bit tricky, so can't promise results. the installation of pppd is not documented on that howto so I'll take a guess: looked at mepis site, is based on debian, so you should have a working apt.. insert the install cd then execute command apt-get install pppd from a shell.

any other question about that howto?

ps: you can allways ask questions on mepis forum too www.mepis.org/forum

[fox]

Most of the time installing linux after XP and using the bootloader that comes with linux is enough for a dual boot sys. But i have had trouble and still didn't come to a solution when installing in sata discs.

Anyone with same problem or is it just my noobish stupidity!?

[bonarez]

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only have probs with linux and my raid controller

like said, raid controllers are a pain when dealing with dualboots, and your sata is bound to be a raid controller (onboard)

personaly, I quit doing dualboots. just buy a router and a (cheap) pc for running linux and you will never look back again..

[dw-chow]

very interesting, there's also the option of using a floppy diskette to boot into a linux configuration if you prefer windows as your default and nix isn't installed on a MBR. there's also 3rd party boot loaders such as system command that will "detect" partitions which include the ext3 format.

[cduke250]

You can install windows 1st, then use knoppix to resize the ntfs partition. Then you can repartition and have Linux on the same hard drive.

The best way is to use 2 separate hard drives. (but you can use the same swap on both)

The best way to boot is either grub via floppy, or what I like to do is use a grub bootable CD with a custom menu.lst. You don't know how many times I've used the bootable CD and went into the commandline mode.

I wrote a HOWTO about advanced boot ideas involving grub and ranish partition manager. Its HERE