Dual Booting Win XP Pro/ Slackware 9.1

[Nova582]

Hello!
I decided I finally needed to try out Linux, so I bought a second IDE harddrive and installed Slackware on it. The computer I am using runs Windows XP pro right now, and can run linux using a boot disk, but I was wondering how I could go about getting the system to give me a menu.

Sorry, you guys have probably answered this before, and I looked, but I know nothing about linux

[CopperTop]

Check this out:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3573

Post back with any specific areas you are having trouble with.

[Nova582]

Well, I've played around with linux some more, and read your very informative tutorial, but i cannot, for the life of me, find lilo.conf.

I tried the command dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/mnt/floppy/linux.bin bs=512 count=1 to get the linux.bin file to create the dual boot system, but when i restart the computer with XP Pro it says nothing is on the disk (I have sucessfully formatted it, so it isn't a compatibility problem).

I boot from a disk, so i'm assuming that the files i need are somewhere there, but I'll be damed if I can find them

p.s. even with the troubles already, linux owns windows!

[jeremy1701]

Not sure about slackwhere specifically, but lilo.conf is usaully found in /etc

If it's not there, use the find command to find it:

http://linux.bryanconsulting.com/stories/storyReader$181

or

man find

Good luck!
Jeremy