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If this was your landing page: This is part three of a three part article/tutorial. Article Page 1 > Part 2c: Installing Gag Boot ManagerYou can download GAG Boot Manager here: http://gag.sourceforge.net/ OK, Lets say that you now have Linux installed on your hard drive with grub Linux boot loader installed in the root partition. After the installation you rebooted into Windows - which was your only choice because no part of your system knows where to find grub or Linux until you install and configure GAG Boot Manager. You are now about ten minutes from your Linux first boot. Download the gag.zip into a folder and just extract its contents into this folder. Image 1 below is what you will have. Follow the instructions provided at the bottom left of the image according to your version of Windows.  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Image 1. I have left out some of the initial installation images because they are pretty self explanatory. The image below is one that begins the operating system setup. You have a blank formatted floppy in your floppy drive - Right? Type the s key on your keyboard and hit enter to begin setup. Next...  Image 2. You see the the red highlighted letters? This is how simple GAG is to set up. Type the a key on your keyboard and hit enter to add a new operating system. Next...  Image 3. Here we see a Linux hard drive setup. If you have more than one hard
drive you will have to hit the number 2,3 and so on (like it says in the image) to
show your configuration. Don't worry about GAG showing the Ext2 format, that's how
it lists Ext3 partitions.  Image 4. If you choose a partition from the second, third... hard disk, GAG will ask you if you want to swap the disk drives. But if the partition is in the first hard disk, you will not see this question. If you answer YES, each time you boot with that icon a small resident program will be installed, which will swap that drive and the first hard disk, so the operating system will think that the second (or third...) hard disk is the first (C:) and the first is the second (or third...) (D:). This allows you to boot operating systems such as MS-DOS from the second, third... disk, and not only from the first.  Image 5. Type a description for your OS Like openSUSE 10.2. and hit enter. Next...  Image 6. There is no need for another password. You have to log into your OS with a password. Just hit enter and proceed. Next...  Image 7. Type the letter of the icon you want and hit enter. Next...  Image 8. After choosing your icon you will arrive back to the configuration screen. Very Important: This is where we save our new OS configuration. We want to Save To Floppy, so type the letter f and hit enter. Give GAG a few seconds to save to floppy and when prompted hit enter again to confirm. Now type r on your keyboard to return to main menu Next... Image 9. As you can see we now have a new Linux OS appearing on our menu. You would now type the number of the OS listed (in this case 2) and you will go into first boot if it is a newly installed Linux OS.  If this was your landing page: This is part three of a three part article/tutorial. Article Page 1 > |