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Posted: Dec. 15 2006,14:59 QUOTE
Currently, the bootloader is written to the mbr of device that DSL is installed on.  When it asks you about the windows thing, that is just a menu entry.

Depending on how grub points itself to stage 2, you may be better off taking off your windows hard drive while you install it on your desktop.
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Posted: Dec. 15 2006,15:50 QUOTE
Success  :D  :D  Thanks

I had the other HD unwired and had replaced it with the laptop's HD, but it wouldn't detect it, but I persevered and eventually got bios to recognise it. It must be a problem with this HD, but it took 3 or 4 boots before bios detected the drive - strange  ???

Anyway, once it was appearing as hda then it was plain sailing, I have it now back in the laptop as a dual boot - win98 or DSL    :D
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Posted: Dec. 15 2006,16:16 QUOTE
great :)

Maybe your bios has those hdd settings saved and only cleared them then.
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Posted: Dec. 15 2006,17:45 QUOTE
Unfortunately DSL is a bad yellow tinted screen, can't read the text at all. I guess it is a display setting, so I will search the forums but if anyone knows how to fix it it would be much appreciated.

> DSL 3.1 on an IBM thinkpad 560z 300Mhz 128MB (display in belarc shows as NeoMagic MagicGraph 128XD display adapter)

EDIT - All working fine - just needed fb800x600 boot option and xfbdev choice.  :D
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