On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 19:00, ab.boonstra wrote: > Where would I go about info on installing Debian on my HD along side > WindowsME? > I have a Pentium3 766mh, 192Ram, 20GigHD. ( Not partitioned ) Now is the 20 gig hd going to be for both debian and ME? Cause if it is all you need to do is partition it with say 10 gigs for windows and a 385 mb linux swap partition and the rest give to linux(ext2) as its root partition. Then install windows. Make sure windows only takes the first partition. After this install debian(I recomend doing a net install of woody). When prompted to install the boot record by lilo tell it to install it into the MBR. Then go back and edit /etc/lilo.conf and add windows into it useing the chain loader. Also extend the time out and rerun lilo. After this you should be able to dual boot into either OS. Now if the 20 gig is just for linux. Then you need to give windows the primary master spot and put the new 20 gig into an open spot on your IDE bus. Then do the swap partition and give ext2 for the rest. At this point you should be able to follow the rest of my directions. Here are some examples of what you need to add and change. lilo.conf: delay=200 #this is a 20 second delay other=dev/hda1 label=WindowsME
fstab: /dev/hda1 /win vfat defaults,user 0 0#this is to mount windows partition hope this helps -- -Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty: power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day, or it is rotten... The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continual oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot: only by unintermitted agitation can a people be kept sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity... Never look, for an age when the people can be quiet and safe. At such times despotism, like a shrouding mist, steals over the mirror of Freedom" - Wendell Phillips