On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Ossama Othman wrote:
: By the way, I don't think I understood what you and David were talking
: about concerning mbr and the master boot record and floppy booting. Could
: you please elaborate?
Sure. If you hold down the shift key very soon in the boot cycle,
you'll get a pr
> The default Debian setup allows you to select which partition to boot
> from, before selecting a default. On my system (with only /dev/hda2
> marked bootable), I see a "2FA:" prompt. If I press any keys here, I
> can press "2" (boot from hda2), "F" (boot from floppy), or "A", which
> changes th
Ossama Othman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
OO> By the way, I don't think I understood what you and David were
OO> talking about concerning mbr and the master boot record and floppy
OO> booting. Could you please elaborate?
The default Debian setup allows you to select which partition to boot
from,
> As David Maze points out, it'd also be best to NOT use mbr as the master
> boot record since that will allow one to boot off a floppy and/or
> another partition.
>
> I prefer to let LILO be the master boot record on my servers since they
> only run Linux ... one less piece of software to worry a
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Ossama Othman wrote:
: No problem. Have fun! :)
:
: By the way, perhaps lilo.conf should be readable by root only since a
: password will be listed inside it, in your case. This shouldn't be a bad
: thing, from what I can tell. I am glad that you asked this question since
No problem. Have fun! :)
By the way, perhaps lilo.conf should be readable by root only since a
password will be listed inside it, in your case. This shouldn't be a bad
thing, from what I can tell. I am glad that you asked this question since
I wanted to do the same thing but never actually tri
Thanks!!!
I should have RTFM, but I thought I remembered all lilo had to offer...
Thanks again,
Liran.
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http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/
On Wed, 5 Aug 1998, Ossama Othman wrote:
> Why don't you just restrict booting by using LILO's "password=" and
> "restricted" in /etc/lilo.conf? Here is w
Liran Zvibel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
LZ> We consider putting Linuxes (or should it be Linuces? )in the
LZ> classes, but don't want the students to be able to boot single
LZ> user and then rm -r *, or open accounts and try to get into the
LZ> network.
LZ>
LZ> Is there an easy was to put a pass
Why don't you just restrict booting by using LILO's "password=" and
"restricted" in /etc/lilo.conf? Here is what the man page for "lilo.conf"
says:
password=password
Protect the image by a password.
restricted
A password is only required to boot the ima
Hi.
We consider putting Linuxes (or should it be Linuces? )in the classes, but
don't want the students to be able to boot single user and then rm -r *,
or open accounts and try to get into the network.
Is there an easy was to put a password on single user boot?
If not, I have and idea how to pre
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