Big_Baller Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 Ok I do a dual boot with XP pro and Mandrake. I am going to do a reformat and install of my xp partition soon and I need to know how to stop XP from overwriting my boot loader. Would the lilo boot disk restore the boot loader or somthing after I install xp? I also had a random linux question. How do I get root privliges in the gui? I know how to from a console but I am not sure how to have them when moving files between protected directorys with the gui. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 You cannot stop xp from doing anything! :D You can, however, prep a partition and tell xp to just use that partition, and then reinstall the boot loader after xp is done taking over the drive. If you don't tell xp where to go, it may try to remove linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Baller Posted February 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 lol no no no I know all about partitions and that XP will take over the hd. As my professor said, "install dumber OS's first". and it holds true for xp and linux. I have a 10 gig partition for XP and then 50 gig for data and stuff. And then 15 odd of linux. Well I guess my real question is how to install a new boot loader. Other than running the linux setup again I don't know of any way . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgutty Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 I am not familiar with XP, but I was able to reload '98 and recover my LILO menu by simply inserting the 1st MDK CD and selecting 'rescue', I believe it was called Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgutty Posted February 12, 2004 Report Share Posted February 12, 2004 Nice picture, btw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted February 13, 2004 Report Share Posted February 13, 2004 How do I get root privliges in the gui? I know how to from a console but I am not sure how to have them when moving files between protected directorys with the gui. Applications menu/File tools/File manager - super user mode... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Baller Posted February 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2004 Thx spinynorman, I knew it was somthing like that becuase I had seen the option before but I couldn't find it. I think its a nice picute too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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