Re: Setting up a Bootloader, post install.
On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, patrick wrote:
> To the OP, I find grub more flexible.
> To David Teague, is there some reason you are top-posting to this
> thread? Its quite annoying. re your question, gnu parted might do it.
> I'd backup first tho.
Patric
YOU do not own the list, nor the thread. I was considerably annoyed by the
tone of your response, and the lack of any explanation of your annoyance.
What do you mean "TOP POSTING"?
To attempmt to answer you question, I had some experience that I thought
the original poster might have found useful. I know that I had known that
bit of information, I wuld have had less trouble when I was installing
And I had a question about the issue that I wanted to ask. Thank you for
your answer to my question.
David Teague
> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 06:41:59 -0700 (PDT)
> From: patrick <rpmq@yahoo.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Setting up a Bootloader, post install.
> Resent-Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 08:42:03 -0500 (CDT)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> --- David Teague <dbt@cs.wcu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > The only difficulty I see is that on a MB with a 486, the
> > BIOS may not see all of the disk, causing lilo to fail.
> > (It does on my old 486).
> >
> > An answer to this is to put a small boot partition in the front
> > of the disk, put /boot and put the kernel there. If there is
> > another answer, I'd like to hear it.
> >
> > Someone please tell how to make such a partition on an existing
> > system short of copying the data some place else, redoing the
> > partitions, and copying the data back.
> >
> > David Teague
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 20:40:28 -0700
> > > From: Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <ke6sls@cox.net>
> > > Reply-To: ke6sls@arrl.net
> > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > > Subject: Re: Setting up a Bootloader, post install.
> > > Resent-Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 22:58:24 -0500 (CDT)
> > > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > >
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> > >
> > > On Friday 13 September 2002 01:49 pm, sobriquet wrote:
> > > > I've installed Woody on an old machine (a 486!), and as a
> > temporary fix I
> > > > used a floppy disk to boot, allowing regular boots to load
> > Win95(!). Now
> > > > the Win partition is gone completely, so I'd like to have debian
> > take over
> > > > the mbr and the bootstrap process completely, as a single boot
> > system.
> > > >
> > > > How do I go about doing this, without going through the install
> > process
> > > > again? Do I simply need to install GRUB or LILO? Or is there
> > anything else
> > > > I need to think about?
> > > >
> > > > Much thanks.
> > >
> > > Greetings 'putyournamehere':
> > >
> > > I would be surprised if lilo isn't already installed. Check with:
> > > dpkg -l lilo
> > > If you see something like:
> > > ii lilo 22.2-3
> > > Then it's installed. Just run /sbin/lilo and it should write to
> > the mbr. If
> > > you don't have lilo, then install it and the config should walk you
> > through
> > > it. Also, if you have questions, use 'man lilo' and I think 'man
> > lilo.conf'.
> > >
> > > gl
> > > tatah
> > > - --
>
> To the OP, I find grub more flexible.
> To David Teague, is there some reason you are top-posting to this
> thread? Its quite annoying. re your question, gnu parted might do it.
> I'd backup first tho.
>
> patrick.
>
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