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Heya, OP/Solsbury pointed me in this direction. I finnally got a dual boot system working with win98 and SuSE 7.3 late night. Everything is going well thus far but I know that I will have issues at some point. This is why we learn. Any quick tips or sage advise is appreciated.

Marv.

Hi Marv.
Some of the best documentation in computing are the HowTo documents. They realy do work.
The other thing is to play and not be afraid of breaking things (doubt it'd be a problem for you ).

Have fun.

I will have fun breaking things. Now that it is safely installed and the partitioning is right I think I am OK. I am using lilo on a floppy as a loader so my MBR on my main machine will not not screw me up like it did before.

Another way I used to use to start Linux without screwing up the MBR was a small prog called loadlin (a win/dos prog to boot linux). There is a mini how to on the subject of loadlin and win9X.
I found it quite good in that I could boot into linux by double clicking on a windows icon

I found it didn't work with anything except for Win95, although it might have been an old version. It certainly doesn't like WinNT and derivatives (Win2000, WinXP) very much.

From memory it needs to go into pukka real mode on the x86. Normally it does this through dos which is why it probably doesn't work with NT but will with the dos/win(3.x, 9x, ME).

It seems to have been designed for micro$**t DOS, because I could NEVER get it to work under DR-DOS (which I've heard is the one micro$**t perjured) unless I was booting from a floppy.

You're in.

Thanks Bloke.

I am still getting used to a few things. But so far everything is awesome.

Ah excellent.