Installing Linux/LILO while keeping things intact on Lenovo notebook

Yes it should be possible, sadly I haven't used LiLO in such a long time I am not sure how easily I could walk you through it anymore, sorry.

Seablade

Most people are going to recommend you use grub. grub is just plain easier (in MOST cases).

Boot a linux live cd (knoppix is nice), and use gparted/parted on the hard drive to see if the hidden partition is at least a marked partition. If it is, you don't have to worry about it. The next likely problem is disk space. Your Win7 install is probably taking up the whole hard drive, and I don't know enough about windows to say if Win7 uses the same ntfs format as XP/Vista. if it does, you can probably resize the win7 partition safely. if it doesn't, I'm not sure if it can be resized.

Once you've made it that far, you should be able to install slack to the new free space (not used slack in a long long time, so don't take that at full face value). When you get to configuring the bootloader, don't have it installed into the MBR, but rather, into the beginning of the partition. When that's done, you can use a dd command to copy the bootsector to a file, and edit your boot.ini for windows to have an entry listing your linux install. This is how I did my first dual booting win2k, anyways.

That's just a light overview of what you're going to be doing. I'd advise a step '0' before doing any of that where you get a sufficiently large external hard drive to do a dd of the whole hard drive as it is right now, that way you can do a true full restore if you mung anything up.

PCLOS is a great "system on a disc" distro. It includes the awesome Mandriva system diagnosis and partitioning tools. Download the latest 64bit version. It's disc managing software is outstanding and will allow you to painlessly shrink your main Windows partition then setup the rest of the disc to the partitioning scheme of your choice. After setting up your partitions you can reboot then proceed with the Slackware installation.

I hope this helps,
Ciao

You should be able to install it to a folder within windows and run it from that, its kind of a dual boot without affecting any partitions... Ubuntu uses wubi to do this and it works well (I have Ubuntu, Jolietcloud and Xpud running from a folder on my laptops)... when you get annoyed with it, jus uninstall and it takes it right out, grub bootloader and all (I haven't used LILO in a while)...

Thanks for the info! It helps.....

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