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>10. Rebooting</A
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>The rest of the installation is straight forward and requires no
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hand holding. Select the packages you want, make the boot disk when given
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the oppurtunity to (absolutely essential especially for
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<SPAN
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>Loadlin</SPAN
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> users) and reboot the
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system. <SPAN
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CLASS="APPLICATION"
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>Lilo</SPAN
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> users should press
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<TT
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>dos</B
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> at the <SPAN
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CLASS="APPLICATION"
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>Lilo</SPAN
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> prompt
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to boot into Windows. Like promised none of the Linux partitions will be
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visible to Windows and we can all rest in peace for
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that. <SPAN
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CLASS="APPLICATION"
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>Lilo</SPAN
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> users should reboot the system and
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boot into linux this time by typing <TT
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>linux</B
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> at the
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<SPAN
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>Lilo</SPAN
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> prompt and depending on the choices you
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made you will either be at the console or the
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>gnome</SPAN
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> or <SPAN
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>kde</SPAN
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>
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desktop. From one amateur to another it's always a good idea to log into
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the console first and not graphically and then starting
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<SPAN
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>X</SPAN
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> because if <SPAN
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crashes on you still have access to the system to make amends.
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<SPAN
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>Lilo</SPAN
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> is set to boot into Linux by default after
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a gap of <TT
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>5</TT
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> seconds, you can change the default to
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Windows by editing the <TT
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>lilo</TT
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> file in
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<TT
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CLASS="FILENAME"
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>/etc</TT
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>. Look for the line that says
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<EM
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>default=linux</EM
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> and change it to
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>dos</SPAN
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>. Alternative launch <SPAN
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>lilo</SPAN
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from an <SPAN
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>xterm</SPAN
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> and change the asterisk from
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>linux</SPAN
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> to <SPAN
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>dos</SPAN
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> (use the arrow buttons,
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dummy). That's set now for <SPAN
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>Lilo</SPAN
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users.</P
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>Setting up <SPAN
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