At 01:43 PM 1/20/00 +0000, Ethan Benson wrote: >On 20/1/2000 Onno Ebbinge wrote: > >>Is it possible to set LILO on a DOS floppy disk >>with the default boot for the hard disk and an >>alternate boot for the DOS floppy itself? > >if you mean install the lilo boot sector on the DOS floppy then no, >dosfs does not leave any room for a bootblock, so installing lilo on >it would destroy the dos filesystem, which would not be problem >except you say you want to boot from it.
Yes, that is what I ment, maybe I should put LILO on the hard disk and then set the default boot to the hard disk with an option to boot from A: ??? >you can however install lilo on a floppy and have it boot the hard disk. Is there then realy no way to boot the floppy also WITH a DOS filesystem? Probably not :-( Thanks, Onno
