Tek wrote: > What will allow me to drop to DOS and go through lilo? I think you mean drop to DOS and go through Loadlin, not lilo.
Lilo is not accessed from DOS. It's a boot loader that gets installed in either the MBR, or in a partition boot sector. Loadlin, on the other hand, is a DOS based boot loader for Linux. To use it you need only two files: 1) your Linux kernel image file 2) loadlin.exe Basic use is very simple. From Really DOS Mode, you execute a command line like the following, which can also be executed from a DOS batch file: loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro vga=5 vmlinuz --> the name of your kernel image file root= --> specifies where your Linux root partition is located ro --> mounts the root partition read only (until fsck is run during boot) vga= --> can be used to set video mode (mode 5 = 80x34) For more details, install the Debian loadlin package and look at the documentation in /usr/doc/loadlin. The loadlin package also, of course, includes the loadlin.exe binary. Tom > I'm not all that new to the Linux thing, but I want to install Debian 2.1 > onto a 2.1 gig hard drive and be able to keep my other OS (sadly, Win98) > until I can burn all my stuff to disc and convert my other HDD (8.6GB) to > ext2. In any case, I'd just like to know how I can partition it correctly > ... I want to be able to use LILO through DOS to boot to Linux off the hard > drive, because on the box I've had for about a year now boots off a floppy, > which takes an unnecessarily inordinate amount of time. Should I make a > 16MB partition specifically for /boot (some guy on another list said that > would work), another partition for root (what's appropriate size here, as a > partition of a 2GB HDD if I want to use the system for coding/development?), > and the rest for /usr and all the other stuff? How do you (plural) suggest > I go about doing this? Also, can I specify where I want all the parts of > the file system to rest on the drive? I can't remember from my last > installation (did a plain old vanilla stripped-server profile for my boss). > What will allow me to drop to DOS and go through lilo? I've checked the > FAQ, and I suppose what I'm looking for is something more in-depth ... I > thank you all for your time, > Michael Phillips > > (I'm having troubles with it not recognizing my Rockwell HCF 56K, too, but > that's a whole other email! :o)
