Hi all,
I am a bit stuck here with my new install of debian 2.2. The problem is I have installed Windows nt on to an ntfs drive and later on I wanted to install debian, thing is as you all know I need to have had a small fat16 partion in order to run lilo from. I didnt have tha7t at the time due to circumstances, so now I run Debian off a floppy boot disk which I created on first installtion. Now I am stuck, I need to configure my cdroms` and other hard disks but the lilo.conf file doesnt exist now does it! So I am stuck!!!! My boot floppy has several files including the kernel ldlinux.sys linux message.txt syslinux.cfg "DISPLAY message.txt TIMEOUT 40 PROMPT 1 DEFAULT linux APPEND root=/dev/hda6 ro " ^^^^^^ is on my syslinux.cfg file Ok now what I need to know is how can i reconfigure my current setup so as I can get my cdrom to work as a cdr(its eide so i have to make it in to a scsi device!), but in doing this I need to edit the /etc/lilo.conf file, which I dont have (due to installing the boot record on a floppy). 1: how do i setup my boot floopy disk with the new scsi supported kernel ? 2: Can i export the boot device information in to a file e.g. boot.bin and dump that on to my ntfs drive or the linux partion and inform boot.ini about it? a`la ---> [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00 [VGA mode]" /basevideo /sos multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\boot.bin="linux debian 2.2" choice 1? multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\="Linux Debian 2.2" choice 2? I am stuck and I cant rebuild my machine as NT is important for my job (yuck!) cheers all! zed
