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Re: [Plug] A question about installing Linux
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> Sometimes booting into dos with a floppy and doing a fdisk /mbr then
> booting back into linux with a floppy and reinstalling lilo works for me.
> Of course that works great when lilo mysteriously disappears and windows
> boots up without my permission.
To avoid some of these problem, I always install LILO in the root
partition of Linux, not the boot secto. THen I make the root
partition the active partition. If an install or problem from
another operating system causes problems, all I usually have to
do is change the active partition back to the Linux root partition
usinf any operating system that boots up, a Linux boot disk, or
a good 'ol DOS boot disk. This also avoids some problems with
large disks, etc, that I don't care to fully understand.
-Howard, hch@op.net
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