[dundee] Resetting root.

[Mark Harrigan]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 08:58:16PM +0100, Andrew Clayton wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 20:32, mordak5 wrote:
> > was thinking of installing linux on the same computer as 2000K anyone tried
> > it before?
> > 
> 
> The main problem, is getting it onto a machine with only one hard drive
> where w2k has the whole disk and is using ntfs.
> 
> You need to run something which puts all the data on the disk from the
> beginning onwards so that you have a contiguous amount of free space.
> I'm pretty sure windows comes with such a device...

Remember that if you use Mandrake for this you might need to specify
linear mode in /etc/lilo.conf to enable lba accessing otherwise the /boot
partition has to be within the first 1024 cylinders.