Re: [newbie] Influence and help LM91 NOW

[John Richard Smith]

Anne Wilson wrote:

On Friday 10 Jan 2003 8:09 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:

and for those of us who have never done anything like this before - some
guidance please. I propose to get rid of 8.2, keeping 9.0 and install a
test distro to the newly empty partition. Is that right?

Anne

It's pretty staight forward.
The only thing I would caution you with is about
is installing lilo.
The new OS will expect you to overwrite your old lilo and adopt it's
lilo.conf , but since it's only a test OS , you don't really want it
to do that , so I personnally don't install lilo at all on the test OS
install, but I do make a boot floppy, just in case.
Then boot to M9.0 Desktop and use it's lilo install and lilo.conf
to make your entries for booting M9.1, and this has
the added advantage that if you messup it's easy
to remake the entries, your not temparily locked out.

I feel quite wimpish, but I'm not really clear about this. I thought lilo would be written automatically, with the test distro as just one of the entries.

a) Are you saying this is too dangerous?

no, not at all, just not necessary, you don't have to install lilo , just click it off ,
and get to the next item on the agenda, It's a personal choice, the point is
if you choose to install the beta version lilo that's whatyou will be booting on, and
it's lilo.conf, so if you format over the beta install , or whatever you loose the
lilo.conf too, no more either OS until you reinstall a new lilo, and lilo.conf,
so why bother to install the beta lilo and lilo.conf at all just boot up to desktop
with the M9.0 lilo and lilo.conf and just write a stanza to boot the beta version
then you can do what ever you like with the beta partition and you don't loose the
ability to boot M9.0 . It's a different matter when the final release comes out, then
you would obviously choose to install that lilo and lilo.conf to boot both OS's

b) Just what do you have to do to avoid it?

Just click if off and get on with the next part of the install, what comes
after lilo, let me think, boot floppy I think, and it's a good idea to make
one of those. Indeed , instead of using M9.0's lilo and lilo.conf
and a new stanza, to boot the beta install, you could just use the floppy,
good enough for testing out a beta version don't you think.


John

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