Re: Stuck with NT and Lilo

2000-09-13 Thread romeu
question 2: Here's "NT-Bootloading How-To" I was talking about. You won't need a fat partition: NT-Bootloading-Linux-HOWTO You have Windows NT installed on one partition using NTFS, one partition with DOS as C:\, and Linux on a third. You wish to use NT's bootloader to load all three OSes. He

Re: Stuck with NT and Lilo

2000-09-13 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
question 1: install a scsi-enabled kernel package. configure it add the new drives to /etc/fstab question 2: to get this working, you need a primary partition, where you can install lilo on. 1) boot linux from the floppy. 2) install lilo to your root partition (hda6 - this is a problem. it mus

Re: Stuck with NT and Lilo

2000-09-13 Thread romeu
>thing is as you all know I need to have had a small fat16 partion in order to No, you don't need a small fat partition. There is a How-to called "NT-Bootloading How-To" somewhere in the net that show you how to Boot-load with NT > but the lilo.conf file doesnt exist now does it! NT overwrote

RE: Stuck with NT and Lilo

2000-09-13 Thread Jason Holland
FYI, there is a little program called Bootpart, that will allow you to add linux to the nt boot manager menu. having done that, you would no longer need the floppy. floppies are slow, and die often! you will, of course, need lilo installed, but pointing to the root partition of your linux instal

Re: Stuck with NT and Lilo

2000-09-13 Thread Jason Quigley
lilo.conf is where you describe what bootable partitions are available. To enter information about your cdrom, etc., you need to edit the file /etc/fstab. See man fstab and man MAKEDEV for more information. Cheers, Jason. --On Wednesday, September 13, 2000 14:28 +0100 Ziad Afra <[EMAIL PROTE