Re: Help Convert Me to Linux
From: Walter Mautner (nextnews.15.eatallspam_at_spamgourmet.com)
Date: 01/04/04
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Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 11:49:35 +0100
rotwang wrote:
>
> I hate MS. I want to run linux on my PC, dual booted with win2k or xp. Now
> what?
>
> I know my way around linux from using it on webservers for a few years
> now.
> Installing it I know nothing about. So I went to justlinux.com which has
> some help files that are kind of outdated, and points me in different
> directions.
>
> First question. My head is spinning, do I want to do: LILO? NUNI? PQBoot?
> or this thing:
> Don't worry. Recent distributions can handle a multi-boot environment. You
will want lilo or GRUB (depends on the distros default) to install into the
MBR and create a "WINDOWS" bootoption also. Well, that way you have two
cascaded boot menus first.
> Second question: Will I be able to backout of this and get my Windows box
> back without having to repartition the drive and reinstall windows and all
> my apps from scratch? (Or "At what point during this will I not be able
> to backout...") That fear what stopped me from doing this for five years
> now.
Recent distributions have the option on their install cd when started in
"rescue mode", to "reinstall windows bootloader". Or find the
/boot/boot.03?? file (length exactly 512 bytes, containing the previous
bootsector) and dd it to a floppy: dd if=/boot/boot.03* bs=512 of=/dev/fd0
and you will have your windows bootloader saved for the rare case you wipe
out your complete / included /boot.
> (Hey also does linux use dual procs and is there anything special I need
> to do to get it to see them both?)
>
Just make sure the "smp" kernel gets loaded upon install. Most distributions
handle that accordingly, even knoppix (live cd, good to give it a try)
does.
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