Thread: Landy's n Linux

Hoping someone can help with this. I have a Toshiba Sattelite 5000 on which I run Ubunto. I need to reinstal windows as since the Vic Police have gone digital I need to reprogram my Icom ic400 to get rid of the 40 or so now useless channels. The software for this runs under windows.
Unfortunately the laptop seems to not want to boot from the cd drive so I can install windows as well. I cant work out how to change the boot order under Linux. With windows there was an option (with the Toshiba software) to allow to change the boot order.

thanks,
Ian

Originally Posted by amtravic1

Thanks incisor,
I have fixed it sort of. Took out and refited the battery and hard drive and now it lets me boot from the cd. Unfortunately the operating system that came with it is a recovery disk so the hard drive will be wiped and I will just instal linux on another partition later. There was not anything I needed on the linux system. Just something to play with.

Ian

Ian, isn't tech stuff fun some times. It won't work, you pull it apart, find nothing wrong, put it back together and the bloody thing works again.

You have also stumbled? onto the only way MS Windows will let you dual boot.
NTFS based systems will let you install almost anywhere on almost any drive in the machine. But the older FAT 32 based systems, must be installed to the first active or bootable partition of the first bootable hard drive.

Before re-installing, use "fdisk" in DOS to delete the Windows partition, then add a new Windows partition, but, only give it 2\3 or even only 1\2 of the disk space. When it is reformatted for the installation, Windows will not even understand it does not occupy the whole drive. You then install Linux into the rest of the drives space, during which time the Master Boot Record of the disk will be re-written, and you are given the option to choose a default OS to boot into.

She must be a veteran laptop, to be a W95 job.

Shorty.