"Ian & Lyn Wheatley" typed:
> Good answer, thank you. However the following installation was a disaster. I
> tried to install lilo in the superblock & got an Invalid Partition error
> when I tried to reboot & lost every thing, WinXP included. Don't you just
> love backups.

Next time something like that happens, boot from a DOS diskette or
bootable CD, and run "fdisk /mbr" to get Windows back.

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Ayaz Ahmed Khan

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