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List:       debian-user
Subject:    Re: adding Windoze
From:       "Bart Szyszka" <bart () gigabee ! com>
Date:       2001-01-22 18:38:29
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> Is there ANY relatively headacheless way to add Windows to my machine,
> making it a dual boot box, without first removing the Debian setup I have
> lovingly constructed? :-) I've heard that installing Windows kind of
> commandeers the MBR ...
> I am running a part-stable, part-testing Debian setup on a Dell PIII (I am
> not at home or I'd be more specific, sorry).

Do you have a boot disk for your Debian system? If not, figure out
how to make one. Then install Windows on a separate partition, it'll
kill the MBR, but you can go back to Debian with the boot disk and
configure LILO for both OSes.

- Bart


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