Bruce Perens wrote: > > > It would be _nice_ to be able to install from a > > hard drive partition. > > The next boot floppy will look for a base_1_1.tgz gzipped tar file > and install from it if it finds it. If it is in the top directory > of a mounted partition it will find it automaticaly. This is mostly > to avoid one question when using a CD-ROM root or disk-cartrige root. > Good idea.
> The new boot floppies install MBR and LILO. If you hold down shift when > booting you will see a prompt like "1234F: " with a number for each bootable > partition on your first drive. That will boot the partition you activate > using DOS "fdisk" or Linux "fdisk" or "activate". It also gives you a > second chance to boot from floppy by pressing "F", just in case you have > BIOS set up to boot from the hard disk always. > I guess I'd have to see that. It sounds confusing. Would it cause me trouble if I wanted my bootable partition to be on /dev/hdb1, which is a slave drive, but using the MBR of /dev/dha. That's what I do now. -- David L. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Mathematics http://www.lehigh.edu/~dlj0/dlj0.html Lehigh University 14 E. Packer Avenue (610) 758-3759 Bethlehem, PA 18015-3174 (610) 828-3708
