Hello Dave,
Tuesday, October 19, 1999, 10:39:54 AM, you wrote:
DM> On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Song Jianping wrote:
>>Can i copy an kernel
>> image to a floppy without first making filesystem on the floppy, and
>> then install lilo on the floppy.
DM> No. If you copy the kernel to the beginning of the flopy, it will boot. If you
DM> wish to use LILO, then, as can easily be seen from an inspection of the
DM> /etc/lilo.conf file, the kernel image must be in a file somewhere. In addition,
DM> since LILO overwrites the first sector of thge floppy, it would destroy the
DM> first part of the kernel image.
Thanks very much. Perhaps i should have given up earlier.
Best regards
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