On Monday 01 December 2003 01:23 pm, Harvey Holcomb wrote: > My computer has dual Pentium II's 300Mh with 228Meg of > RAM > I have 3 disk drives : > hda WDC 1G (Win98) > hdc Maxtor 40G (hdc3 Mdk 9.1 - hdc5 Debian) > hdd Maxtor 20G (hdd2 Mdk 9.1) > > I am running Max Blast 3 because of Bios limitations. > This may be a factor since this seems to take over the > mbr and does not live happily with LILO as an earlier > version did. > Well, since you are not using Windows on one of the larger disks, you should be able to skip Maxblast and just let Linux manage the disk. Even if the BIOS doesn't see the whole disk, Linux should see it properly and allow you to install. You may need to make sure LILO is installed below the BIOS limitation, and you may have better luck with Grub as the bootloader in this instance.
> I attempted to install Mdk 9.2 on hdc3. When I > attempted to make a boot disk (which is the way I > reach Mkd 9.1 and Debian) I got an error message "An > error occured mkbootdisk failed". > I think you just want a floppy with the lilo bootsector installed on it and not the full blown bootdisk with kernel and all. -- /g
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