If you want to boot from the hard drive, you need a boot loader, but you could probably just let the installation program make a system boot disk and just boot from it if you wanted. On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 scott.shade at insightbb.com wrote: > I'm borrowing a copy of 8.0, butt, when it talks about installing an os, it talks about using its boot loader to boot the new operating system, and I'm not sure if that is what I really need to do.