dont really have no idea what happened

[rick420]

OK, I just installed Mandrake 7.2 on first try ( I think ). I was going to follow the directions from lwd website on dual-booting Win/Linux--but that never happened. I started installing and it just installed everything by itself. Never asked to make a boot floppy or nothing like that. Restarted my system and I had a new bootloader which let me pick Linux or windows. If I choose Linux--mandrake starts up just fine, if I choose windows, it brings me to the windows bootloader and lets me choose between Win2k and win98. Seems ok to me, but nothing like what everyone has been telling me. I was thinking I was going to have to make a boot disk and copy linux.bin to my c: drive and edit the boot.ini file--never happened. Did I do something wrong? I chose GNOME as my desktop--seems to look fine except is the left side of the screen supposed to be curved?

[Q-Gdoxl]

Sorry I don;t see a big problem here? If you can boot all 3 os's off the hard drive on your first install your doing ok IMO. It took many installs reinstalls of both liunx and win 98/2k (before I found out about fdisk /mbr in 98 and fixmbr in 2k) and still I need to run a 3rd party boot loader (boot magic) to get all 3.

You only need to copy the linux.bin over if you wanna use the win boot loader. If you have no problems with the linux loader then roll with it!

The only thing i can see wrong is that it didn't make a book disk. So make a boot disk and happy linuxing!

If a train station is where the train stops, what is a work station?

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[FoBoT]

Originally posted by rick420:
I do something wrong?

uh, no you did something right!

mulit boot installs are just tricky i guess, there are many threads/NHF's on multi boot cause it often doesn't "just work" like yours did

i have tried doing it a couple times like you say and they always step on each other and i end up with some OS killed off.

i finally (on my last suse 7 install) just skipped the whole lilo/bootloader stuff and only made the boot floppy and that worked fine

i also tried a few "non standard" boot loaders, only system commander worked and the old version i have is a little cumbersome to use

so my solution (cause i have space and some $$) is to have (not yet but by the end of the summer) a seperate boxen for w2kpro (proprietary games and office2000-for work), win98 (just for a webcam/video capture card that doesn't work in linux), BeOS for music, and linux desktop (probably suse 7.1 or the newest red hat after it leaves beta)


oh, crap! this is general questions, sorry for the rant/carring on :o