Re: Mass install / Autoinstall (Was: Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.)
[Trimmed extraneous debian-isp and debian-dpkg cc:'s, hope that's enough]
On Thu, 18 May 2000, Chris Wagner wrote:
> At 09:55 PM 5/17/00 -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> > copy everything from the master drive to the copy, then run the
> > appropriate Lilo command to make that copy bootable. You can then
> > mount it in another machine and it's ready to go. You have to filter
> > some things out when you copy. See below.
>
> You can't do that, I've tried it before. Lilo can't be installed on any
> secondary disk. Don't ask me why because I don't know. There's a HOWTO
> about it.
Here's a URL that explains how to install LILO onto a drive other than the
boot drive. Use the poorly documented features of lilo, "disk=" and
"bios=":
"Installing hdc to Boot as hda and Using bios="
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/LILO-4.html
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