Hello there. I have two questions regarding Debian v.1.3.1
First of all, I'm running a 486 that has two partitions, one for MSDOS
and one for linux. Currently, my system boots off of the DOS partition. To
boot to linux, I have to insert my custom boot floppy and boot up. What I
would really like to do is use loadlin to boot to linux, but I really have
no specific information concerning bzImages or zImages. If someone could
give me some info or a URL, I would really appreciate that. One question:
would it be possible to use a line somewhat like this:
loadlin linux root=/dev/hda2 /dev/initrd=root.bin
so that loadlin boots up using the "linux" and "root.bin" files? Or would
it be better to use a zImage?
My second question has to do with small shell scripts. I was reading a book
on Unix the other day, and it talked about "aliases," which it stated only
ran under Berkely *nixes. I'm guessing that means FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
or BSDI, but can Debian linux use aliases, too? The reason I'm asking is
that I wrote some small shell scripts to make life a little bit easier. For
example, let's say I wanted to make a program called "delete" that would act
like this:
rm -iv
so that I could "delete" a file instead of "rm"'ing it, like so:
$ls
deletethis.zzz
$delete deletethis.zzz
Are you sure you want to delete deletethis.zzz? y
deletethis.zzz deleted
$ls
$
I did that, but every time I ran "delete" I would get something like this:
$delete deletethis.zzz
Parameter not good (not verbatim, but it was close to this)
use 'rm --help' for more details
The same thing happened if I tried making scripts containing mv -iv and cp
-iv. What is the problem here, and just as importantly, what is a posssible
solution? If Debian supports aliases, would this help me? Any help on
either of these two subjects would be grately appreciated.
Sincerely,
Tom Lineman
P.S. I know this is probably a silly question, but if my CD-ROM drive is the
second device on my first IDE Controller, would it be /dev/hdb ?
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