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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 20:18:41 +0100
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On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:50:19 +0100, Pete Collier Pete Collier <pecb [at] nildram.co.uk> said:

>On Wednesday 29 September 2004 20:20, Alex Hudson wrote:
>> On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 20:06 +0100, Linux [at] glead.demon.co.uk wrote:
>> > A short while ago I decided that I would take a look at Linux as an
>> > Alternative to M$. My computer normally runs XP, but I have installed
>> > a new HDD and installed the Mepis distro onto it. Unfortunately when I
>> > run Mepis Linux my mouse behaves very oddly. After posting on the
>> > Mepis list I couldn't get it sorted. Recently I have downloaded the
>> > SuSE Live distro which seems to work well for me. How do I go about
>> > switching from Mepis to SuSE on my HDD? I haven't got any valuable
>> > data on the Linux drive, but do have rather a lot on the other drives.
>> > (I did try searching the list archive, so apologize if this has been
>> > dealt with before)
>>
>> You have to be pretty careful at the moment, unfortunately. There is a
>> problem in a number of current GNU/Linux distributions where if you
>> install GNU/Linux after Windows, you stop Windows from being able to
>> boot. This also prevents the FIX(Boot/MBR) tools from working, and re-
>> installation of Window also doesn't work :D
>>
>snip
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Alex.
>>
Snip
>	I have about 3 years ago used a freebie windows boot manager (can't remember 
>what it was called, came with the pcplus magazine.) but it worked fine.
>
>Peter C

When I installed Mepis it put Lilo boot loader in my MBR. If I disconnect the main HDD with winXP on it before installing SuSE will Lilo still work? Will the boot bits of SuSE be found by Lilo or does SuSE needs its own/require Lilo to be reconfigured somehow?

Cheers Geoff
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Geoff Schrecker
53 Westbourne Road
Sheffield S10 2QT

http://www.glead.demon.co.uk
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- [Sheflug] Changing Distributions - Complete Linux Newbie question
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- Re: [Sheflug] Changing Distributions - Complete Linux Newbie question
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