new2lunar

[Tom Nicholson]

> If you're really set on using floppies instead of adding linux
> to ntldr/boot.ini or putting grub (or lilo) in the MBR,
> look at http://syslinux.zytor.com/faq.php
>

Thanks for the tip. Interesting possibility. I 
may try Syslinux. Lilo under suse linux will 
boot a floppy. It's fairly fast because 
there's nothing on the floppy but a 1 sector 
mbr that hands off to the kernel residing 
on the linux partition (vs Syslinux which 
seems to want a kernel on the floppy). And 
very safe for other non-Linux os.

I could be wrong about these details 
because it's been a while since I looked, 
but
I believe that I'm correct. This is what I 
was hoping to accomplish on Lunar 
but don't know how to create the boot 
floppy mbr and lilo config. I'll have to look
 into more Lilo details and any other setup 
tools Lunar offers. 

BTW, I tried an install from iso and things 
went pretty well as far as I could tell. I 
wouldn't let it write an mbr anywhere 
because I wasn't sure what the correct 
Linux name for my partition should be or 
how to refer to it. It's the 2nd hard disk so 
it's /dev/hdb, right? And there's a FAT32 
partition first so my ext2 partition would be 
hdb1?? 

Anyway because of the uncertainty, I didn't 
let it write mbr. I've deleted the Lunar 
partition with partition magic and will try 
again later because I want to learn the 
Linux boot process.

Thanks again,
Tom

> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Shern, Benjamin J 
> > Sent: February 25, 2003 3:24 PM
> > To: 'Lunar Linux Mailing List! (all are welcome)'
> > Subject: RE: new2lunar
> > 
> > 
> > The non-cdrom install is for machines with no cd installed at all,
> > sounds like you have 2... I used the grub loader (I had to learn the
> > grub syntax) and installed the boot record to the linux partition
> > only, not the MBR. I then copied the boot record to my windows xp
> > partition and use it as the primary bootloader.
> > 
> > Ben
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Shern, Benjamin J 
> > > Sent: February 25, 2003 3:15 PM
> > > To: 'Lunar Linux Mailing List! (all are welcome)'
> > > Subject: RE: new2lunar
> > > 
> > > 
> > > The lunar kernel provides a patch for geforce4 in the native
> > > fb driver, but I had no luck with it.  It honked up the display
> > > when I tried to load it.  The nvidia driver worked very well and
> > > flashes an oh-so nifty logo on the screen as it loads. Choose one
> > > or the other, but don't try to load both! =) Ben
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Tom Nicholson [mailto:tomn at antelecom.net] 
> > > > Sent: February 25, 2003 3:08 PM
> > > > To: lunar at lunar-linux.org
> > > > Subject: new2lunar
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Hi, I'd like to install Lunar to a hard disk partition and have
> > > > it boot from a boot floppy (i.e., not write mbr to any hard
> > > > disk). I 
> > looked at the 
> > > > instructions on installing from a non-cdrom system and it's
> > > > interesting but I don't think I'm expert enough to 'get' the
> > > > significance of everything the author is saying.
> > > > 
> > > > My system has
> > > > primary e-ide controller: master, 40 gig NTFS; slave 15 gig as 2
> > > > partitions 8 gig FAT32; 7 gig unallocated.
> > > > 
> > > > secondary ide controller: master Pioneer DVR-104; slave CDWRITER
> > > > 3212.
> > > > 
> > > > Rest of system is 1 gig ram, Athlon 1800XP; nVidia nforce 
> > > chipset MSI 
> > > > motherboard.
> > > > 
> > > > Any help / tips appreciated. I know I'm in for an 
> > > experience getting 
> > > > networking going because nVidia keeps the specs to its 
> > > > network adapter 
> > > > proprietary and won't let the gpl community have it. They 
> > > > provide a built 
> > > > module nvnet.o. Also what to do with xfree? is there a 
> > > > framebuffer driver 
> > > > like in suse? or go to nvidia's geforce2 driver.
> > > > 
> > > > I'm really impressed with the concepts behind Lunar. I 
> > > found it while 
> > > > looking about the net trying to decide if I wanted to build 
> > > a Debian 
> > > > system or try a Linux from Scratch. I've tried major distros and
> > > > want to move away from them because they're aiming more at IT
> > > > depts 
> > > for their 
> > > > economic survival than desktops.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Tom
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
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