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Re: boot floppies status report



>>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Perens <bruce@Pixar.com> writes:

    Bruce> The most important are to run LILO on the
    Bruce> root partition, to install "mbr" on the disk and activate
    Bruce> the root partition unless the user doesn't want that, and
    Bruce> to use syslinux for the boot floppy (the boot floppy is no
    Bruce> longer necessary unless your root is not on your first disk
    Bruce> or you don't install "mbr").

Do I understand it correctly that a user will be given a choice not to
perform any of these actions? (my setup would need this for example --
I have DiskManager booting LILO installed on /dev/hdb5, which boots
kernel of another partition on hdb).

Gleb


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