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I need some help with lilo.
I want to install Slackware 9.1 as a second OS on my NEC Versa laptop with XP.
I have a 30 GB drive which after cfdisk now has:
hda1 2 GB Fat32 hidden (XP backup)
hda2 21 GB XP ntfs - bootable
hda3 5GB linux (primary)
hda5 256 MB linux swap (logical)
Does this look OK so far
I am going to install Slackware on hda3 as root, no other partitions with reiserfs
How do I set up Lilo and where do I install it to. This laptop does not have any floppy drive, so rescue disks are a problem if I get it wrong
Just install the LILO bootloader to the MBR of the FIRST partition (your hidden fat in this case) and make sure you FIRST install winxp, so you can let slackware overwrite your WinXP MBR, then add an option to boot WinXP to lilo. ( You have to install winxp FIRST otherwise your slackware MBR will be overwritten).
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