Slack 9.0 and xp

dfunkydog · 08-28-2003, 08:32 AM

I've xp and slack on my computer. As I have no way of backing up my system, can someone tell me of a surefire way to boot without using a boot floppy.

I'm scared I might lose my xp stuff

tangle · 08-28-2003, 09:04 AM

Try Lilo or Grub boot loaders.

koyi · 08-28-2003, 09:23 AM

Boot into Slackware, install grub, create a grub boot disk, boot with that grub boot disk, install grub into the MBR.

It is highly recommended to have a grub bootdisk since it can boot many OS. Try search for grub in this forum and you may find many clues.

moojuece · 08-28-2003, 09:30 AM

is your xp partition ntfs?
if it isnt you should have no problem with the default lilo install.....if it is manually set up lilo to only have slack and then after that add the window partition from the slack install

dfunkydog · 08-29-2003, 01:28 AM

Thanks for your comments....as my xp partition is FAT32 I went with lilo.....worked fine.

Thanks :-)