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"woea!" schreef:

> > I want to install NTworkstation on another partition ! There is allready
> > win98 and linux on 2 other partitions !
> > My Question is - can i install NTworkst. on another partition and is there
> > allso a BOOTmamager with NTworkst.
> > so that i can use win98 or NT or Linux .There is allready a bootmanager
> > [from linux...] but will that give a problem
> > with a new bootmanager or is it better to delete the old bootman. [and
> > how?]................
> > Please help  :-((

Hi, one way to do this is the following:

We will use nt's bootmanager

1. first you should have boot disks -with the program fdisk- for every OS on
your puter so you will still be able to access your harddrive if something
unexpectedly goes horribly wrong :-(

2. reinstall your Linux bootmanager - probably lilo - to the partition where
Linux is installed. Most likely it is now installed in your Master Boot Record (
/dev/hda or the MBR of c:\ in a win9x environment ). Reinstallation is
accomplished by editing lilo.conf and running lilo.
Tell lilo to install in Linux' root partition ( *not /dev/hda*  but for instance
/dev/hda2, find out!, use linux fdisk ) by editing the line in lilo.conf with
boot in it:
boot=/dev/hda2 in this example

3. for security, tell it to make a backup of the soon to be old bootsector
backup=/boot/boot.hda2.currentdate

4. remove the lines considering the other OS from lilo.conf ( win9x )
You can still use a selection of your own kernels if you desire to do so

5. close the editor you used to edit lilo.conf
maybe I elaborate too much, but it would be a shame if anything failed

6. make a backup of your current MBR using the dd-command and remember where you
put it
/bin/dd  if=/dev/hda2  bs=512  count=1  of=/boot/boot.hda.currentdate
Only the hda2 and the /boot/boot.hda.currentdate part of the previous line may
be changed!! the rest should be exactly like this!!

7. check whether /boot/boot.hda.currentdate is 512 bytes in size

8. run /sbin/lilo, this will effectuate the changes in lilo.conf
It will probably complain about being installed on a logical partition and it
rightly does but in order for anything to work, just ignore it and continue.

9. now copy the current bootsector of LILO to a place where nt will be able to
find it
/bin/dd  if=/dev/hda2  bs=512  count=1  of=/mnt/hda/bootsec.lin
Remember I use hda2 as an example, use your Linux's native partition instead (
where / is at ). If you use scsi-disks for example every hda changes to sda

10. reboot using a win9x boot flop
Reinstall the bootsector the way win9x sees it with the command
fdisk /mbr
btw: there should a file on c: named bootsec.lin with a size of 512 bytes :-)

11. do another reboot without the floppy, win9x should start without problems,
Linux doesn't even seem to exist

12. install nt - do'nt touch the linux partition!! some OS are pretty ignorant
or at least pretend to be |-(

13. edit boot.ini, at the end add a line
c:\bootsec.lin="Linux"
maybe you have to adjust boot.ini attributes first

14. if everything went ok at the next boot there should be an entry for Linux in
nt's boot manager!!!

greetz Jeroen