On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 20:24:27 +0100, Franco Vecchiato wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I had a problem when installing Debian 2.2 rev 0.
>During the installation of LILO, the program asked me where to install it;
>when I chose /dev/hda, the reply was: "The boot partition is a logical
>partition ... Please select th
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>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Str|mberg)
>Subject: Re: lilo installation on IDE disk > 500 megabytes
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Blair)
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From: Charles Blair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I am trying to install the 7-14-96 debian release on a machine
> with over 500 megabytes on an IDE hard disk.
Well, if LILO will work at all with the default configuration that you get
when you install the package, you are probably safe, since only _one_
c
Hello.
>
> I am trying to install the 7-14-96 debian release on a machine
> with over 500 megabytes on an IDE hard disk. I want to have a DOS
> partition and a linux partition. At present fdisk shows:
>
> >Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/hda1
Hi Charles --
>I tried creating a subdirectory c:\linux in DOS, then from linux:
>
> mkdir ./dos
> mount /dev/hda1/linux ./dos
> cp /boot ./dos
>
Your mount command (as given above) is making a DOS file system accessible
under a Linux directory. That seems unusual.
If you j
You only need to copy the kernel image to the DOS partition, for example:
cp /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.6 ./dos/vmlinuz
Then when you've booted DOS type (make a batch :-)
loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro
Or have alook at the loadlin documentation.
Some tips for "advanced" use of this boot
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