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I keep Win98 and Mandrake 7.0 on seperate disks and everything is
coexisting just fine.

I need to repartition my windows disk, and therefore reinstall
windows.  However, I know this will wipe out LILO.

Everything works fine at the moment, and afterwards I'm thinking it
could just be a simple case of booting into Linux via a bootdisk and
copying the LILO config to where it needs to be.

Can anyone clarify/confirm before I*the mbr by reinstalling
Windoze?

Cheers,
JLucien.

How exactly do you need to repartition it? Parted is pretty
clever these days and perfectly capable of shrinking
Windows98 partitions.

Quote:> Can anyone clarify/confirm before I*the mbr by reinstalling
> Windoze?

Kind of the wrong forums but I don't think it does. Some
flavours of NT can be fussy about which partition it gets to
install on. Whilst you have a Linux boot disk and don't muck
with the Linux partitions its pretty easy to recover things.

Try to get Partition Magic. It allows you to repartition your Windows Disk
without reinstalling.

If you have to reinstall windows, it will overwrite the MBR. Create a linux
boot disk that allows you to boot the installed linux system. From there you
just call lilo again to restore your dual boot configuration.

Quote:>I keep Win98 and Mandrake 7.0 on seperate disks and everything is
>coexisting just fine.

>I need to repartition my windows disk, and therefore reinstall
>windows.  However, I know this will wipe out LILO.

>Everything works fine at the moment, and afterwards I'm thinking it
>could just be a simple case of booting into Linux via a bootdisk and
>copying the LILO config to where it needs to be.

>Can anyone clarify/confirm before I*the mbr by reinstalling
>Windoze?

>Cheers,
>JLucien.

--
Eggert Ehmke

You don't even need to copy it.  The LILO configuration file is in
the Linux filing system and the Win98 installation shouldn't touch it
(unless it screws up badly and splats the Linux partition).  Simply
boot with your boot floppy and at the shell prompt type "lilo".  This
will cause LILO to be re-installed with the same configuration and
you should be fine.

HTH
John
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John Winters.  Wallingford, Oxon, England.

The Linux Emporium - the source for Linux CDs in the UK
See http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/

Thanks John.

Exactly the kind of help I was looking for!

Thanks again,
JLucien.