[Sheflug] Re: setup probs.

[Damian Bamforth <nospam [at] Btinternet.com>]

Hi,
I'm a newbie with linux. I have just installed caldera 2.4 - and I have been
experiencing difficulties that I can not find man pages for.

I want to dual boot my machine between windows and linux. Upon installation,
caldera only sees the linux partitions, and ignores the other opperationg
system. I went ahead with the installation anyway, and told it to boot as
default. Upon re-starting my machine the mbr was blanked, so not only would
windows not load, neither would linux. Caldera boots off the floppy ok. It tests
the kernal - then  appears to lose the floppy drive it has just booted from!
This causes a problem later on, as it can not then write a boot disk. Is this
some kind of bug, or am I doing something wrong?

How can I configure a boot manager - I've heard there is one called lilo. I can
find a man page documenting lilo.conf - but is there not some gui alternative to
configuring this in the kde environment?

Also, how do I see the other drives/partitions on my system? Is there a 'my
computer' file somewhere, as there is in windows?

Thanks to anyone who can help with my questions.
Damian.

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