Christian Meder (meder@isr.uni-stuttgart.de) wrote: > On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 02:14:00PM -0700, Ron Farrer wrote: > > The install instructions seem to fail to meantion that you have to > > install the boot stuff manually (someone correct me here if I'm wrong). > > What you need to do is boot like you did the first time for the install, > > but change root to be your hdd. > > That's not true. If you booted via MILO, partioned your hdd with a DOS > disklabel and left a small partition at the beginning of the hdd (type set to > DOS) as suggested by the instructions the 'make linux bootable from hdd' step > will format the first partition and install linload and milo there. Relax! I said "documentation" :-P > David (dhd) did a terrific job on the alpha boot disks ;-) Yes he did! > Nothing to do manually. Great, I was just recalling from slink since I haven't done a fresh potato install on a non-SRM system. :) Ron
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