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Topic: dual boot? does frugal do it?, wanted to ask before i mess it all up.

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outanet

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Posted: Aug. 08 2005,11:23

Getting well in to DSL recently, I must recommend the IDE flash modules from MINIITX.com
I used a 256 and parted it 55M/* for MyDSL and restore.

anyway, to my simple question:-
will a frugal install a dual booting Lilo, ie windows on hda1, linux on hda2, and a frugal to hda2 installs the dualbooting lilo on the MBR of the disk?

also how can I edit the lilo.conf?

many thanks for just looking, many more for a good answer.

stu

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adraker

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Posted: Aug. 08 2005,13:44

Hmmm...do I get half-points for saying
dunno about the lilo script, but the frugal
grub script can account for a windows partition?

outanet

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Posted: Aug. 08 2005,14:32

Indeed you do get them, but grub on dsl needs to get files from either the web or elsewhere which can be painful in certain situations. I know i tried and eventually succeded.

also I like lilo, just one of those preferences i got stuck with.

stu

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mstrhelix
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Posted: Aug. 08 2005,16:08

Why not just check the boot options from the cd. Boot from cd when you want to boot into DSL. Then press f2 to view booting options and do something like

boot: DSL fromhd

i'm not sure that this is exactly correct and that is why you need to view the boot options at the boot screen first.

Max

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Posted: Aug. 09 2005,23:55

Roberts specifically wrote the grub frugal install for dual booting with Windows. You may take your chances with the Lilo frugal. I'm writing this post from a dual boot notebook that I used the grub frugal install on. XP Pro is on hda1.

Since this is my corp notebook, originally the whole disk was configured for XP. I used Partition Magic to free up some of the disk. Then booted DSL livecd and used fdisk to create a swap, frugal and general use partitions. Did a frugal grub install, rebooted and everything was perfect.

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