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
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