Re: Strange LILO question

[Onno Ebbinge <Onno@Willem.Alexanderschool.nl>]

At 01:43 PM 1/20/00 +0000, Ethan Benson wrote:
>On 20/1/2000 Onno Ebbinge wrote:
>
>>Is it possible to set LILO on a DOS floppy disk
>>with the default boot for the hard disk and an
>>alternate boot for the DOS floppy itself?
>
>if you mean install the lilo boot sector on the DOS floppy then no, 
>dosfs does not leave any room for a bootblock, so installing lilo on 
>it would destroy the dos filesystem, which would not be problem 
>except you say you want to boot from it.

Yes, that is what I ment, maybe I should put LILO on the
hard disk and then set the default boot to the hard disk
with an option to boot from A: ???

>you can however install lilo on a floppy and have it boot the hard disk.

Is there then realy no way to boot the floppy also WITH a DOS filesystem?
Probably not :-(

Thanks,

Onno