On Sunday 27 August 2006 18:08, PaulNM wrote:
> Mick wrote:
> > Yes. You may also remove the linux boot image file C:\bootsect.lnx. The
> > only drawback is that if he keeps Gentoo and ends up using it regularly,
> > then every time you/he compile a new kernel you will need to repeat the
> > exer
Mick wrote:
Yes. You may also remove the linux boot image file C:\bootsect.lnx. The only
drawback is that if he keeps Gentoo and ends up using it regularly, then
every time you/he compile a new kernel you will need to repeat the exercise.
You will not need to redo all this every time you (r
On Saturday 26 August 2006 22:10, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Thanks Mick,
>I've never done the NTLDR method. That looks fairly interesting and
> somewhat benign in the sense that (it appears...) I add an entry to
> boot.ini to make Linux visible and then remove it if he doesn't end up
> using Linux a
Thanks Mick,
I've never done the NTLDR method. That looks fairly interesting and
somewhat benign in the sense that (it appears...) I add an entry to
boot.ini to make Linux visible and then remove it if he doesn't end up
using Linux at all.
I'll check it out. I found this page:
http://jaeger.
On Saturday 26 August 2006 21:16, Mark Knecht wrote:
> 1) Do I load grub on /dev/hda1 - the NTSF partition? This seems wrong
> to me as grub most likely doesn't like NTSF.
Please don't! It'll wipe out the Windoze partition boot sector and he won't
be able to boot WinXP again (not without runnin
Hi,
A friend asked about trying out Linux. After doing a bit of reading
and looking at the Gentoo site he wanted to try Gentoo so I said I'd
help install it o his Windows box. The situation that I've not faced
in a long time, if ever, is that he has an existing Windows
installation on the first
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