Package: boot-floppies
Version: N/A; potato RC3
Severity: normal

I did an install from my RC3 floppies this week - still do not have r1 CDs,
waiting for r2 to be there :} - and went into the following problem.  It was
not a blocking problem for me, but I guess it may be to others.

Partionning:
/dev/hda unused (but has old OS and std M$ mbr)
/dev/hdc1 /boot
/dev/hdc2 swap
/dev/hdc3 /
/dev/hdc4 /local

As answers to dbootstrap, as 1st partition to mke2fs I selected hdc3,
mounted it as root, and then mke2fs'd the others.

When it came to LILO setup, I only had 2 choices for LILO location:

hda MBR - well, OK, but I would have prefered hdc MBR, to keep the old
        one.  Any reason why it's not there ?  My bios does support booting
        from ide1 !  I tested it successfully !

hdc1    - er... yes.  Bad guess.  I suspect this can be due to a wrong
        assumption like "/ is the first ext2", but I suspect many people
        still put /boot first !  Strange that it did not picked up hdc3
        here.


-- System Information
Debian Release: woody
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux bylbo 2.2.17 #1 Sun Sep 10 19:21:52 CEST 2000 i586



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