On Tuesday 29 July 2003 15:28, Jianan Huang wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> My Linux system is basically working. I am looking at ways to enhance
> it.
>
> 1) I read about disk boot problem in the mail list. Right now I boot
> from a floppy. My machine BIOS can only boot from the C drive or the
> floppy. I use D drive for my Linux. If my floppy fails to boot, I may
> have to re-build a whole new system. It would be wise to have an
> image copy of the whole floppy as a backup. Is there a utility to
> create a binary image of a Linux floppy? I have looked at fdutils. It
> doesn't help.
If you are using LILO to boot from Hard Disk, you will want to have
something like that in you /etc/lilo.conf
# snip here
# Tells lilo to install itself to the MBR
boot=/dev/hda
#Tells lilo where to look for the linux / filesystem:
root=/dev/hdb1
default=Linux
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label="Windows"
# snip here
This is very minimal. You should read /usr/share/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz
to know how to tweak this.
> 2) I have read about Linux BIOS. I believe BIOS is another area of
> software that has to open up. Does Debian have one, and come with
> source code too?
If you don't have a very deep understanding of what using Linux BIOS
will do to your box, DON'T try it.
> 3) Does Debian support freehand writing devices such as Wacom
> electronics pad? I'm talking about the device driver as well as
> application packages such as freehand editing for documentation and
> emailing, freehand drawing etc.
I use an old Wacom Artpad (serial port) to draw from within the GIMP. It
supports pressure. I don't know if there exists a freehand font
recognition program (I don't think so).
joerg
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