Re: Install confusion

[Paul Schwartz <brpms@earthlink.net>]

Andreas Janssen wrote:

> Hello
>
> Paul Schwartz (<brpms@earthlink.net>) wrote:
>
>  
>
> > Right now  I am booting from floppy because I don't want to screw up
> > my legacy system [OS/2 4.52 which uses a Boot Manager and LVM. I think
> > it can be sensitive to changes in boot stuff] until I have the Debian
> > system working to some minimal level of completeness.
> >    
>
> As I already wrote, you can install lilo on floppy, but use the kernel
> from the hard disk It is installed in /boot anyway. This way, your boot
> loader for OS/2 and other OS partitions will not be touched. This way,
> booting will also be much faster.
>
> Try
>
> lilo -b /dev/fd0
>
> best regards
>        Andreas Janssen
>
>  
Thanks again. I was a little dense on the first hint, but I think I 
understand now.  I am installing the 2.4.18 kernel as I write and will 
put lilo on a floppy when that is done.

I feel better already :-)
Paul Schwartz