No, they should both be made bootable. Greg On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:45:07PM -0600, Reinhard Stebner wrote: > should I go back in make the windows partition bootable and the Linux not? > > Thanks for your help. I just wish speakup would do a better job with menus. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gregory Nowak" <gnowak1 at uic.edu> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 11:35 PM > Subject: Re: installing slackware 8.0 with speakup > > > > After you press enter on that first option, your floppy should spin, and > you'll be dropped back into that menu. Arrow down to the last choice which > should exit the menu. This should be correct, although I can't remember > exactly how that particular section of the installlll goes. > > > > After you get through the kernel menu, you will install lilo. Once lilo is > installed and the setup is over, when you reboot, type "linux" at the prompt > that comes up, or hit enter to get into windows. Feel free to ask if this is > not clear or if you have more questions. Linux installs can be scary > sometimes, especially if you haven't done one before. > > Greg > > > > > > On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 11:07:43PM -0600, Reinhard Stebner wrote: > > > Hi all, I am in the middle of installing slackware 8.0 on my older > machine. > > > Right now, I am at the menu where I should select witch kernal I would > like > > > to use for Linux. Well, my question is this. No matter what I do, I > can > > > not get out of the menu. I am trying to select the first choice which > is > > > > > > boot disk use the kernal from the installation boot disk > > > > > > When I try this I press enter with speakup saying the fraise above. > > > > > > Second question, how do I make win 98 boot again on this machine? I > have > > > not rebooted the machine since I started the install of Linux. I am a > frad > > > to because I do not know how to get back to windows. > > > > > > Thanks for any help. Just wondering how to tell slackware that I am > wanting > > > the boot disk option. When the menu first came up I had pressed enter > > > thinking that it would except the default choice witch was > > > > > > boot disk use the kernal from the installation boot disk > > > > > > Thanks for nay help. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
