Hi all,
I am a bit stuck here with my new install of debian 2.2. The problem is I have
installed Windows nt on to an ntfs drive and later on I wanted to install
debian,
thing is as you all know I need to have had a small fat16 partion in order to
run lilo from. I didnt have tha7t at the time due to circumstances, so now I
run Debian
off a floppy boot disk which I created on first installtion. Now I am stuck, I
need to configure my cdroms` and other hard disks but the lilo.conf file
doesnt exist now does it!
So I am stuck!!!!
My boot floppy has several files including the kernel
ldlinux.sys
linux
message.txt
syslinux.cfg
"DISPLAY message.txt
TIMEOUT 40
PROMPT 1
DEFAULT linux
APPEND root=/dev/hda6 ro "
^^^^^^ is on my syslinux.cfg file
Ok now what I need to know is how can i reconfigure my current setup so as I
can get my cdrom to work as a cdr(its eide so i have to make it in to a scsi
device!), but in doing this
I need to edit the /etc/lilo.conf file, which I dont have (due to installing
the boot record on a floppy).
1: how do i setup my boot floopy disk with the new scsi supported kernel ?
2: Can i export the boot device information in to a file e.g. boot.bin and
dump that on to my ntfs drive or the linux partion and inform boot.ini about
it?
a`la --->
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version
4.00" multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation
Version 4.00 [VGA mode]" /basevideo /sos
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\boot.bin="linux debian 2.2" choice 1?
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\="Linux Debian 2.2" choice 2?
I am stuck and I cant rebuild my machine as NT is important for my job (yuck!)
cheers all!
zed
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