Re: partitioning, dual booting(?)
Tek wrote:
> What will allow me to drop to DOS and go through lilo?
I think you mean drop to DOS and go through Loadlin, not lilo.
Lilo is not accessed from DOS. It's a boot loader that gets installed in
either the MBR, or in a partition boot sector. Loadlin, on the other
hand, is a DOS based boot loader for Linux. To use it you need only two
files:
1) your Linux kernel image file
2) loadlin.exe
Basic use is very simple. From Really DOS Mode, you execute a command
line like the following, which can also be executed from a DOS batch
file:
loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro vga=5
vmlinuz --> the name of your kernel image file
root= --> specifies where your Linux root partition is located
ro --> mounts the root partition read only (until fsck is run
during boot)
vga= --> can be used to set video mode (mode 5 = 80x34)
For more details, install the Debian loadlin package and look at the
documentation in /usr/doc/loadlin. The loadlin package also, of course,
includes the loadlin.exe binary.
Tom
> I'm not all that new to the Linux thing, but I want to install Debian 2.1
> onto a 2.1 gig hard drive and be able to keep my other OS (sadly, Win98)
> until I can burn all my stuff to disc and convert my other HDD (8.6GB) to
> ext2. In any case, I'd just like to know how I can partition it correctly
> ... I want to be able to use LILO through DOS to boot to Linux off the hard
> drive, because on the box I've had for about a year now boots off a floppy,
> which takes an unnecessarily inordinate amount of time. Should I make a
> 16MB partition specifically for /boot (some guy on another list said that
> would work), another partition for root (what's appropriate size here, as a
> partition of a 2GB HDD if I want to use the system for coding/development?),
> and the rest for /usr and all the other stuff? How do you (plural) suggest
> I go about doing this? Also, can I specify where I want all the parts of
> the file system to rest on the drive? I can't remember from my last
> installation (did a plain old vanilla stripped-server profile for my boss).
> What will allow me to drop to DOS and go through lilo? I've checked the
> FAQ, and I suppose what I'm looking for is something more in-depth ... I
> thank you all for your time,
> Michael Phillips
>
> (I'm having troubles with it not recognizing my Rockwell HCF 56K, too, but
> that's a whole other email! :o)
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