On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Kharaghani, Ali wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to install Debian OS on my PC. I have two other OSes on my
> computer with a boot manager (OS/2).
> How can I install Debian safely? I have already gone through the
> installation guide. I'm using floppy disks method.
> Boot manager is mentioned in the installation guide only for
> activating partitions or making a partition bootable etc.
Ali,
When you get to the question "Make the Hard Disk Bootable?," answer NO.
Be sure to make a boot floppy when asked, however, so you can boot into
Linux. After things are configured, you need to make the Linux partition
bootable (with fdisk) and add an entry to your Boot Manager pointing to
this partition.
Then you need to configure LILO to boot Linux from the partition. Here is
my lilo.conf file (which I use with Boot Manager):
compact
boot=/dev/hda3
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=100
image=/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage
label=linux
root=/dev/hda3
Note that the boot line shows the partition rather than the disk itself.
I pointed image to the location where a kernel make puts the bzImage file
so that I didn't have to move it after every compile (some folks probably
won't approve of doing it this way, but it has worked so far for me.)
Bob
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