J D wrote:
> i got into linuxconf. when i got to access local volumes, all it has is:
>
> /dev/zip for source, /mnt/zip for mount point, vfat for FsType.
> it says it three times. there is nothing else. could this be the source of
> my problems? i think i know what's going on, but since i'm new to this, i
> don't want to get ahead of myself.
Understandable.
Add the dos drive or partitions, if that's what you want to do; however, you
need to know what the /dev/{filename} is. You can find that out with fdisk.
If your dos partition is on the first hdd, then run fdisk without any
arguments; if on the second hdd, then run with /dev/hdb for an argument. The
screen you need to use is Config | Boot, instead of Config | Filesystems.
mike
On the other hand, that's for adding filesystem fstab mounts, whereas I believe
what you're trying to do is to configure lilo for a boot manager.
In this case, you need to provide the following information:
- the contents of your lilo.conf file, and
- what hdd your dos boot partition is on, hda or hdb.
Also, look using either fdisk, or looking at your fstab file, to see which
/dev/hd[ab]{n} device file your dos boot partition is mapped to. If it's at
the beginning of hda, then it's probably /dev/hda1, and in this case, if you
want to place lilo boot manager in the MBR (master boot record), then you need
to make sure that the first line of your lilo.conf file (in the /etc directory)
is
boot = /dev/ hda
You can configure lilo using linuxconf, but you described the wrong screen,
above.
