Post Reply 
Installing Linux, need some help
Author Message
BlackNinja
(White Pirate)

Posts: 139.4855
Threads: 26
Joined: 25th Jan 2007
Reputation: 3.37413
E-Pigs: 1.0755
Offline
Post: #3
RE: Installing Linux, need some help
Here's a tutorial I wrote last year, it still works... but I prefer Lilo, (never needed GRUB)...

LinWin install with Lilo, Revised for dual boot:

"Give a man a fish, and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and give up your monopoly on fisheries."-some guy


Step 1: Get plenty of rest and then, partition your HD.
-Make one NTFS, one Linux ext3, one swap (twice the size of your ram), and one FAT32 with the leftover space. A FAT32 partition is by no means necessary but both Linux and Windows can read as well as write to it. This comes in handy for Dictionaries, capture files, password dump files, documentation ect.There are programs for read/write access on either side but they are buggy and you will lose data.

Step 2: Install Windows to your NTFS partition.
-If you can't do this without help, stop right now, AOL pwns you.

Step 3: Install Linux to the ext3 partition.
-Remember which hda it installs to.

Step 4: Instal Lilo

Code:
liloconfig

-follow the GUI - choose simple, your resolution and install to mbr

Code:
nano /etc/lilo.conf


-Change code:

# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = current
label = Linux
read-write
# Linux bootable partition config ends

Step 5: Save and exit

Code:
lilo


-It should then say,

"Added Windows and Linux."

Good to go.


[Image: userbar291081bz9.gif]
Ninjas don't have peg boys.
06/05/2007 11:11 PM
Find all posts by this user Quote this message in a reply
Post Reply 


Messages In This Thread
Installing Linux, need some help - Chroma - 06/05/2007, 08:58 PM
RE: Installing Linux, need some help - BlackNinja - 06/05/2007 11:11 PM
RE: Installing Linux, need some help - xBu - 07/05/2007, 03:34 PM

Forum Jump:


User(s) browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)

 Quick Theme: