I saw that you use ICQ so I just wanted to warn you. ICQ has a very
insecure connection (all platforms) which is easy to use as a transport
to gain access to your computer. If you let it in through your
firewall, the firewall will not be able to stop any attacks using ICQ.
Well done on moving to SuSE!
On Monday 29 July 2002 08:56, keith.kepner@us.pwcglobal.com wrote:
> This link might help you....
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.html
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> Austin Theen
> <austin@penguindevel To: slug@nks.net
> opment.com> cc:
> Sent by: Subject: [SLUG]
> LILO and WinXP slug@lists.nks.net
> 07/29/2002 11:32 AM
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> Hey All,
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> I recently stumbled across a showstopper for my office workstation. I
> am in the process of migrating off of Windows XP and onto SuSE 8.0
> and after I setup everything and started to get really comfy, I
> needed to pull a few things off my ICQ in XP.. I restart and get a NT
> LDR not found msg at the boot prompt after LILO.. Now I had Mandrake
> 8.2 on this before and it would dual boot just fine. When SuSE was
> installed it seen the XP partitions offered to mount them in linux
> and everything seemed ok.. What gives?
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> SuSE made 2 copies of the master boot record in /boot. But I don't
> know which to recover to or how.
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> Is there any resource which would let me rebuild my boot loader for
> WinXP without requiring me to do a reinstall? A reinstall will toast
> LILO and I'd have to boot linux with a boot floppy or run another
> install of SuSE. I've checked MS TechNet and saw nothing concerning
> that.
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> Any help is appreciated.
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> Austin Theen
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