[PLUG] dual booting and upgrading question

[Keith Bentrup <keith@lucidtechsolutions.com>]

Hi guys,
        so it's been a while since i've dual booted, i just have a couple 
boxes now, anyway a friend recently asked me this questions ... and i don't 
how to respond ... any thoughts?

>I ran into a problem upgrading RedHat- I inadvertently wrote Lilo into 
the MBR so there is no way to reinstall without losing >everything on my 
drive, unless you know some way.

she's dual booting between RH 7.0 and Win 98 on a single hard drive. she 
wants to save the files on the win 98 partition, but she believes (and i 
don't know otherwise) that upgrading would entail starting from scratch on 
the hard drive b/c of the lilo/MBR situation .. is this true?  .... oh she 
wants (maybe needs) to start with a fresh RH b/c of hardware 
incompatibility problems and some critical files that appear to be missing

thanks everyone,

-keith :-)


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Keith H. Bentrup
Lucid Tech Solutions, LLC
P.O. Box 135
Wallingford, PA 19086
Tel/Fax (610) 960-5360
http://www.lucidtechsolutions.com
help@lucidtechsolutions.com



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