Re: [SLUG] reformatting windows drive, and restoring lilo

From: J. David Boyd (jdboyd@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Mon Aug 18 2003 - 10:45:09 EDT


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Steven Buehler wrote:

| This assumes you're saving your Linux partition and just
resizing it.
|
| Create a boot disk using drakfloppy (I think that's the
utility) in Mandrake,
| then after you've resized the partition you can boot with that
floppy into
| your Linux drive and reinstall LILO (although I prefer GRUB).
|
| SWB
|

So that would be the same thing to do to reformat my C: drive,
and then I can use Linux to reformat it as a linux drive...

Thanks for the info.

Some more info, please? What is better about GRUB than LILO? I
mean, all I ever do is start the machine and go into linux...

Dave

- --

It's most certainly GNU/Linux, not Linux!
Read more at http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html
or http://www.fsf.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html
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