David Jenkins wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> 1. I need to keep Windows98 on the primary 12 Gbyte hard drive, and would
> like to boot Debian from a floppy. (That way, the rest of the family won't
> even know Linux is on our machine, until I get everything working properly.)
> I created a boot floppy
Hi David,
1: How about installing LILO with a real short boot delay (say 2 seconds
or something) and Win98 as the default OS? Your family won't even know
it's there. :) Or another option: Boot Debian using Loadlin.
2: Run dselect (as root) and install the packages "man-db" (the actual
man prog
Eric Hagglund wrote:
> You can mount your fat partition at startup by
> inserting the text above into two files in the /etc
> directory. These are respectively mtab and fstab.
You should only edit the /etc/fstab file. /etc/mtab is maintained by
the mount program and (normally) contains a list of
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 10:22:46PM +, David Jenkins wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> 1. I need to keep Windows98 on the primary 12 Gbyte hard drive, and
> would like to boot Debian from a floppy. (That way, the rest of the
> family won't even know Linux is on our machine, until I get everything
> working
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 04:07:26PM -0700, Eric Hagglund wrote:
> Is
> > it possible to set up the boot floppy so that the system does boot
> > from it, but once it does, transfers to the Linux kernal on the hard
> > drive (/dev/hdb1)? Is that a sensible question?
> Sure! As soon as the floppy go
Hello,
On Sun, Apr 23, 2000 at 10:22:46PM +, David Jenkins wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I just successfully installed Debian 2.1 on a separate 2 Gbyte hard drive on
> my Intel PC. The installation process went quite smoothly, especially for
> me, a Linux-newbie. Kudos to the Debian team for an ex
Is
> it possible to set up the boot floppy so that the
> system does boot from it, but once it does,
> transfers to the Linux kernal on the hard drive
> (/dev/hdb1)? Is that a sensible question?
Sure! As soon as the floppy goes to the LILO prompt,
you have a couple of seconds in which to pass bo
Hi all!
I just successfully installed Debian 2.1 on a separate 2 Gbyte hard drive on my
Intel PC. The installation process went quite smoothly, especially for me, a
Linux-newbie. Kudos to the Debian team for an excellent release! Whoever has
worked on this has done an excellent job. The pri
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