Hi all, I bought a new hard disk for a machine running RH and since some of the programs I need are dated I thought this would be as good a time as any to make my planned changeover from RH to Debian.
Everything went as described in the Debian installation manual, section 3.7, except for a couple of small points. For example, when I ran base-config, I had no opportunity to add a new user. I wouldn't mind doing it myself, but I'm a little confused about what happens when I edit lilo.conf. If I change lilo.conf to something like boot=/dev/hdb5 root=/dev/hdb5 install=/boot/boot-menu.b delay=20 lba32 image=/vmlinuz label=Debian I'm worried that the MBR is still on /dev/hda. (In fact, I think I received a message to the effect I needed to install the Debian package mbr on the disk). And that I'll make the system unbootable. I'm wondering if the new image, with a new /etc/passwd, knows the old root password and if I'll be able to log on even if the new image does boot. I'm trying to understand the lilo manual and I know similar questions have come up here; nevertheless, I would much appreciate any pointers. Thanks. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
