You'll have to configure the boot loader (in this case most likely LILO) so that it allows a dual boot between the OS's. Now, if you boot your box from the Slack CD, you enter the location of your Slack installation (i.e. /dev/hda2) at the prompt. When Slack has booted and you've logged in, run liloconfig. You might have to do the configuration in "expert" *cough* mode to get it all straight, it depends. Just add the Windows installation and the Slack installation, and install LILO (I have it installed onto the MBR). Then you should be ready to go. Good luck.

install a bootloader like LILO or GRUB

check the book at slackware.com for installation instructions
http://www.slackware.com/book/

We need more information to be able to help you.

1. What are the basic specs. of your machine? (HD/CPU/RAM/Mobo, etc.)

2. How did you partition your hard disk?

3. How did you configure LILO in the Slackware installation?

The Slackware installation may seem pretty unfriendly at first, but once you get used to GNU/Linux you'll find it much easier to understand and tweak to your needs.

munkeh

OK well your hardware is all ok. I use cfdisk which is included in the Slackware installation to partition my hard disk. When you go into the setup, just after you have logged in as root, go into cfdisk and make the partition you want to use type "linux" and the swap file to be "linux swap" (sorry, away from home so I can't confirm the numbers), but I think they are 82 and 83 respectively. Make sure you write this rather than just quit from cfdisk. Don't change your windows partitions or you'll risk loosing them. The swap drive is used if your machine runs out of physical memory (you can tell when this is happening by the huge drop in speed!).

Once you are in the install, don't use the expert mode unless you are an expert! ;-) I always choose the simple LILO setup, and make sure its installed to the MBR, ignore the warnings about this being unsafe. I think Patrick is just covering himself against people breaking their windoze installations! (Patrick Volderking is the guy who maintains Slackware). If the LILO installation isn't successful, you won't be able to boot into Slackware staright from the hard disk. If you made a boot floppy, then try booting from the floppy just to make sure that Slackware has actually installed. However I think your problems stem from LILO. Try installing again (shouldn't take long on a 1 GHz machine!) and I am sure you will have better luck. Incidently, your DDR will run at 266MHz I am pretty sure.

Good luck and stick with it I am sure you will be a convert soon!

munkeh

As I've previously stated in other threads...firstly, LILO's "expert mode" does _not_ require you to be an expert. It just gives you control over what's happening. For a basic setup you don't have to know much more than which partitions to add. Secondly, "simple mode" might not work - it certainly don't work for me. I'm a bit unsure of why, but I really don't care since LILO installs flawlessly through "expert mode".

If your windows is NT/XP/2k... you might want to use bootpart for your booting woes.

blackphire05,

I too run a dual boot with win98se. Once again you did not tell us what problems you were having. Unless you give more detailed information about how you carried out the installation and your partition schemes, NO ONE will be able to help you. A walkthrough of a Slackware 9 installation can be found all over these forums, and all over the net. If you are not prepared to read a good deal of documentation, or have an uncanny natural affinity with computer code, you won't get very far with Slackware. Maybe you should try something like Mandrake, which is far easier to set up for the n00b :-)

munkeh

my setup works fine. i have the following (simpilfied) partition setup:

hda1 (first partition of first ide device) windows98se (fat32) *bootable
hda2 (second ------------"-------------) linux (reisers fs)
hda3 (third -------------"-------------) linux swap
hda4 (fourth -------------"------------) archive (fat32)

my lilo boot record is held im the main boot record and is set to boot hda1 and hda2.

If you've installed Linux on another harddrive you'll need to make your bios boot that Harddrive instead

Hmm? There's only _one_ MBR, and if that's where you installed LILO there's no way around it. I have XP on the primary IDE master and Slack on the primary IDE slave...and yes, the primary IDE master is (of course) the booting device. You really shouldn't have to mess around in BIOS at all to get a functioning dual boot setup.