www.ranish.com It's a partition manager/boot loader that you can run from windows. Install it to the boot sector in order to allow booting Mandrake again - I believe it allows booting from slave drives. On Friday 06 June 2003 09:09 am, Rodney wrote: > My new Maxtor master hd is dying. A new one is coming in the mail and > "oh joy!" I get to 1) save data to the slave drive 2)ground myself and > swap hd 3)format hd and install Win98 and all drivers and software and > updates (THAT is a PAIN in the ass!). The problem is that when I do > that I'll lose LILO and therefore access to the slave drive/Linux. I've > gone thru this recently (about a month ago) after installing the new hd > and wound up reinstalling Linux on the slave drive because I didn't know > how to just re-do the LILO part of the Mandrake 9.1 install. > Any ideas on how I can 're-install' (?) LILO after the WIN98 install? > Btw is LILO the best of boot managers? > > A second question.... > When I try to access a data cd by clicking on /mnt/cdrom thru Konqueror > I get this message: "file:/mnt/cdrom doesn't seem to exist anymore". > The cd is spinning and you get the sense that things are going to happen > but instead that message comes up. I get a similar message when I put a > music cd in and fire up KsCD I get "Unable to enter file:/mnt/cdrom. You > do not have access rights to this location". What do I need to do to > give all apps and users access to the cd-rom? > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list