Re: Knoppix ,woody and LILO

From: eric brown (ericdebianlists_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/17/03

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    Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 08:00:49 -0800 (PST)
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    --- Ralph Bacolod <rafiks_rb@yahoo.com> wrote:
    > Hi! I just bought a knoppix cd and i want to install
    > it on my computer. I
    > already have woody installed which is dual booting
    > with XP. I have 2
    > questions.
    > 1. I want to replace woody without overwriting my
    > files in home. Is this
    > feasible? Home by the way is a different partition
    > .How do i go about it?
    > Can you please show me good howto. Ive googled and
    > it seems that there is a
    > lack of clear documentation.
    > 2. I dont have lilo on my mbr coz ive read that
    > NTloader must be in command
    > . So i just installed lilo on my root and let
    > NTloader boot.. Is this still
    > true? Is it ok if i just let LILO manage the
    > booting?
    >
    > TIA
    >
    > Rafiks
    >
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    Sorry i misred your post... I don't think that answers
    your question, but after writing it I thought of
    posting it anyway...

    Here is what i did I am not sure this is recommended,
    but it works wonderfully for me.

    I bought a used 10G hardrive and installed it in my
    computer has hda (primary IDE master) and I installed
    Linux on that drive. My original windows install is
    now primary IDE slave. I modified LILO so I can load
    XP or Linux. (see below)

    That way i am sure I cannot messup with anything on my
    original installation. I can always go back to my
    original install if I find the Debian learning curve
    to steep at times :).

    Drawback: Since windows is partitionned in NTFS I can
    only read my windows file from the Linux side.
    Windows doesn't even see the linux side.

    Here is how I modified lilo.conf after googling for
    some time:
    http://www.ksoft-creative-projects.co.uk/klug/klug-general/2003-January/000060.html

    other = /dev/hdb1
      label = windows
      map-drive = 0x80
      to = 0x81
      map-drive = 0x81
      to = 0x80
      table = /dev/hdb

    maybe it can solve your problem...

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