Subject: Re: LILO
From: Christopher Swingley (cswingle@iarc.uaf.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 30 2002 - 19:58:54 AKDT
Adam,
* Adam Elkins <i-robot@gci.net> [2002-Jul-30 19:31 AKDT]:
> I want to put another distro(Mandrake) on a spare partiton....but I
> don't want mandrake to write over my current LILO, I'd rather just edit
> the one I have. How do I get around this?
I don't know if it would work, but you could change the ownership of the
file to 440 (r--r---). I doubt if the Mandrake installer would try to
change it back, but it's possible this could break the installer.
Or just back it up and copy it back post-Mandrake, then run /sbin/lilo.
Chris
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