Re: Master Boot Record

On Thursday 07 Sep 2006 08:26, Reid Towsley wrote:

I have floppy drives coming out of my ears. Maybe you could jury rig it in to
run the disk.
Of course you could always run Madriva Linux which does not require a boot
disk.
Can lend you an excellent set of Mandriva disks or a DVD.
Brian Borley
> I need to re-install Windows, as I need to downgrade from the 64bit
> version to the 32bit version to run some of my electronics software.
> This will of course wipe my MBR, preventing me from booting Linux. My
> ideal solution to this problem would be to copy the MBR to a CD (I don't
> have a floppy drive) so that I can still boot Linux after the Windows
> install and run the grub-install command to return everything back to
> normal. I'd like this to go as smoothly as possible, as I ran into some
> hell when I upgraded my hard drive and would not like to repeat the
> experience. Would anyone be able to help me achieve this task? It's been
> many years since I made a boot disk ,and I've never made a Linux boot
> disk before.
>
> Thanks,
> Reid
>
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Received on Thu Sep 7 06:16:36 2006