minimal installation

[Mike McCarty]

oldman wrote:

[snip]

>>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.

Why didn't you say so? Why do so many people state means instead
of goals?

> 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:

I concur.

> fixboot
> for Win2k, XP

I can verify that this works for XP.

> and
> fdisk /mbr
> for the other versions

Even MSDOS...

Mike
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