Dear Indrada (taking liberty though I haven't met u personally), Thanks for the info about rpm. I have 5 partitions in all : 1 primary windows partition (3GB), 1 extended windows partition in which i have 4 logical drives : 1st linux ( ext2) - 4 GB. 2nd, 3rd and 4th all windows ( roughly 4 GB each ).
somewhere in the logical drives, i also have a swap partition about 200 mb. linux fdisk correctly identifies the partitions ( even the order) and the cylinder count imposed is also not exceeded. I have tried a lot, but couldn't install lilo on mbr. at the end of the installation, it says lilo reported some errors (god knows what) and suggests i make a bootdisk. I have tried this with RH 6.2 and 7.1 PCQ. Thank you in advace for the suggestions Sourangshu On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Indranil Das Gupta wrote: > Sourangshu, > > Yes.... MDK uses RPM format... most of the apps being shipped in RPM > packaging, has these days the option of RHAT as well as MDK RPM > packages. > > As far as lilo messing up... r u sure u r loading it properly? can you > let us know you partitions and what u r are using right now as the boot > loader? Only then it will be possible to suggest the correct way to > install lilo. > > hth > --indra. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sourangshu Bhattacharya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "ilug-kol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 10:49 AM > Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] thanks to siddarthada > > > > Hi Joydeep ( or anybody else), > > Does MDK support rpm based distribution ? also, what are boot loaders > > provided. in my computer, lilo messes it all up and i have to load > linux > > with loadlin. > > > > Thanks > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sourangshu Bhattacharya M.Tech. Computer Science, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
