new2lunar

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Hi Ben!

Imho u can check the existing partition names either  w/ an already
installed linux (u mentioned suse) or by burning a knoppix cd and
booting it. Just type a cat /proc/partitions and u'll see how your
system handles the different partitions. And getting a working lilo
config seems easier way for me too, make a dos/win boot floppy if u r
more familiar w/ that, and w/ an 

fdisk /mbr 

u can clean your mbr if anything goes wrong. Or use the knoppix cd to
rescue your system if u do anything fatal w/ lilo. But usually lilo will
refuse install if u do sg seriously wrong in it's config, so don't be
affraid it's very hard to make a system unrecovarable w/ only lilo. A
rescue cd and the chroot command will help u out even from an unworking
kernel.

bye, hirisov

2003-02-26, sze keltezéssel Tom Nicholson ezt írta:
> > 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
>