> prevent the inclusion of a small 1.44 MB or such DOS partition on the hard
> drive, with an AUTOEXEC.BAT file written to automatically dump the user
> into the NIC config utility? Tell Lilo about it and, should the customer
> ever have to reconfigure, it's not _that_ arcane (no more so than, say,
> F8 at bootup and 'Safe Mode' would be).
[Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but I haven't been following
this thread very much...]
Why not just have a single floppy disk that boots into dos, and has the
NIC drivers/config program on it, rather than having to a seperate
partition etc..
This is easier still than partitioning the HDD and getting the user to
tell LILO to boot something other than Linux... All you do is tell em to
put the Disk in the drive, and do a 'shutdown -r now'.. simple as that..
Regards
Chris Fishwick
Technical Support
Southern Internet Services
Work Homepage: http://www.southcom.com.au
Personal Homepage: http://www.calvin.nu
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