coldDeath

Yeah, GRUB or Lilo is in the MBR.

As you said, to put the MBR back to a Windows one which will boot windows, you run fixmbr from the windows CD.

During the Slackware install it asks you to set up Lilo, select install to MBR and watch the results :-)

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Polyphemus_

I believe only partly, something like stage 1 is in the MBR and stage 1 searches on the disk given for stage 2. Not sure though.

coldDeath

Sorry if i'm mistaken then.

But you can install it to the harddrive if you want to.

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lectricpharaoh

Not only them- the manufacturers of flash and optical media are the same way. If they didn't, the 256M SD card I bought for my PDA shortly after I got it would have more than 242.5M on it. That would fit a few more MP3s, dammit!

<runs off cursing>

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Klipt

I got Slackware off a local toaster but after all the formatting it can't find the CD to install from, which seems a little odd since I booted off it :p Could it be that the motherboard (GA-8VD667) is too new?

Klipt

Ok, configured it manually, although it had to retry to find it.

teencoder

I'm planning to install it on an old machine. However is there any particular info I need on setting it up for dual boot?

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Yarvin

whenever I install slackware onto my laptop I can't get the GUI to work.... I tried 'start x' and 'xorgcfg' and 'xorgconfig' and I tried editing the xorg.conf file but nothing worked.... unless I didn't configure it right... it does this with other distros too.. like Fedora and SuSE.. right now I'm running Vector Linux Standard.

coldDeath

@Yarvin: Did you install X.org and a WM?

@teencoder: Its not hard to set it up as dual boot at all, the installer allows you to install LILO boot loader into the MBR, and it comes with ways of changing its settings.
You can also edit /etc/lilo.conf to add new OSes, remove something or edit stuff liek wait times.

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Rory

startx (all one word!) won't work without a valid /usr/X11/xorg.conf (it's just a script really).

You could try /usr/X11/X -configure or Xorg -configure to automatically generate one but that doesn't look like it's working for you. If xorgconfig and xorgcfg weren't working one last shot is xorgcfg -textmode which will try Xorg -configure among other things. However it's more likely that you haven't got X properly installed or something it depends on, though if you're absolutely sure it's all working http://www-128.ibm.com/developerwork...nuxxwin-i.html is worth a look for a beginners guide to X.