[plug] re: reinstall or rebuild

[Jon L. Miller]

Got a friend who has install rh62 on a dual boot system (2 hard disk
(win95/rh62)).  He noticed he was missing some major apps (gnome being one
of them).  So he went about a reinstallation and of course the system asked
what type of installation and he chose upgrading the existing installation
or something like that.  What ended up happening is when he went to boot
first LILO shows up then the next line then it just hangs there forever.
Any ideal what went wrong?
I suggested the following:
copy the lilo.conf file to a safe place (floppy)
remove the win95 drive
blow away the linux drive and rebuild from a fresh install.
copy the lilo.conf file back and reboot.

Not knowing if this will work, I need to find out if it will.  Also when
doing an automatic install does Linux over write the win95 drive? or will it
ask which device to put the boot partition on?  If rebuilding the drive is
the best way what is the best way to blow away linux?

Thanks

Jon L. Miller
Novell Master CNE
Compaq ASE
WA Reseller for Sophos Anti-Virus
MMT Networks Pty Ltd
Perth, Australia
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