Re: [SLUG] Dual boot help

From: Chuck Hast (wchast@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Aug 21 2004 - 20:02:58 EDT


On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 19:39:08 -0400, Richard Smoot
<rsmoot@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> Eben King wrote:
>
> >On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Chuck Hast wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>I was starting to install the Novell DVD but got cold feet because I
> >>really do not want to screw up this machine. I would like to know if
> >>someone in the Tampa Brandon area would watch over my shoulder and make
> >>sure I am doing all of this as I should. If this were my machine I would
> >>not worry about it but it is my work machine so I can not afford to mess
> >>it up, but I can put a Linux partition on it providing I do not mess
> >>things up.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I can be there if you come and get me (Riverview, can't drive). I did a
> >similar thing (installed Linux from the Novell DVD onto a formerly XP-only
> >machine). Just know that there will be a LILO/GRUB prompt before XP
> >begins loading. Maybe you can get this not to appear, and have the
> >machine only load Linux if you're holding down a magic key, but I don't
> >know how.
> >
> >
> >
> If you want to just try SUSE, have it make a boot floppy only.
> Don't let it install the loader on the hard drive.
> I have done this with several distros to try them.
> Just make sure you have your machine set so that it can boot
> from a floppy. With out that boot floppy, no one will even
> know you have Linux in the machine.

No one will care, indeed I think once I show off what it can do in the office
some of those that are tired of the virus other MS issues thing will want to
try the same thing. Also this "modern" laptop does not have a floppy.
will have to use a "boot CD" or a bootable compact flash card B->
 I just must not mess up what is on there now.

-- 
Chuck Hast 
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."
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