minimal installation

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Mike Chalmers wrote:
> On 2/13/07, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> Mike Chalmers wrote:
>> > I have about 300mb of free space. I would like to install the smallest
>> > installation I can. Is this possible and how? Thanks in advance.
>> >
>>
>> More explicitly than my other response,
>>
>> $ sudo du -s /usr/bin /usr/sbin /etc
>> 183256  /usr/bin
>> 20364   /usr/sbin
>> 62052   /etc
>>
>> So those three areas alone eat up about 266 MB.
>>
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> I can't do an installation without a graphical interface that is less
> than 300? I thought that was possible. All I really need is the boot
> loader so that I can boot to Windows XP. You see I had a problem where
> I deleted my linux partitions and turned them into NTFS using
> Partition Magic and now I get a grub command line when I boot and I
> don't know how to get to Windows. That is why I was asking about a
> minimal installation so that I could just get the boot so that I could
> boot to Windows.
> 
Your best recourse here is to use the M$ install disk to rewrite your
MBR.  Depending upon which DOS you're using, I believe the command is:

fixboot
for Win2k, XP
and
fdisk /mbr
for the other versions

hth

Scott