hi,

first i want to apologize for my poor english skills.

i want to try slackware but i have a question about bootloader. atm i have winxp(brothers os)+win2k3(my os) when i installed win2k3 some default windows(?) bootloader showed up. the question is will slackware be in that bootloader after installation or will i have to configure it somehow? (i wont install lilo). i don`t have floppy so i wont be able to create slack boot disk and booting may be a problem. if slack wont show up in that bootloader maybe someone knows how to put it there?

sorry for my english on more time. i hope u understood something
thanks for any help.

Hey Slackware wont show up in the windows bootloader by default, you have to put the boot image into the boot.ini file on the C drive. Try using this, this is what I used when I installed redhat, but I am pretty sure it will work the same for slack.

http://www.linuxbeginner.org/modules...article&sid=20

seems it`s not possible without floppy... thanks anyway

You have a couple of choices.
1) (a bit dangerous) install lilo in the MBR.
I imagine your winz 2000 is NTFS formatted, and as NTFS is very sensitive to be overwritten, this could lead to some problem if you often overwrite your MBR because of system updates.
If you can predict no updates of your system will be done often, this could be the simplest choice.
2) Use the windows bootloader
This can be done even if you don't have any floppy, by a USB pendrive or creating a small FAT32 partition while installing Slackware.
FAT32 partition can be read/written either by winz and Linux, and you can use it as intermediate layer for file transfer between the operating systems.
Hope this helps
Ciao