Marc, I have Nt4.0 on the first physical scsi disk. That good old gotcha Microsoft. On a second scsi disk I have a dos partition and a 3gig partition for linux. I use the bootdisks to boot to dos or linux. This is probably out dated. Where do I find the MBR first of all to save and how? Can I leave my partitions as they are?
Where do I get the source files for 4.2 XFree86? I was just looking on the web site. If I stay with the current Linux OS and what you have listed then this will install the files necessary to run XFree86? Or do I need to compile the source files in c or something like that. John Marc Aurele La France wrote: > On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Marc Aurele La France wrote: > > > On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, John Kissell wrote: > > > > > One of my machines still runs a 2.0.39 kernel and libc5. And 4.2.0 is > > > > quite happy on it. No 3D of course, but on this system I don't mind. > > > > > You only need to upgrade XFree86, preferably to 4.2.0. However, getting > > > > that done on an older system might be a bit of chore, given we only > > > > provide binaries for glibc 2.2. So, you should either upgrade the whole > > > > shebang, as Lionel suggests, or build from XFree86 source. > > > > I purchased Slackware 7 and 8. Most of these require you to install > > > LILO to boot from. The current Linux OS I have boots from a floppy and > > > I thought I would stay with that. Thats why I was keeping the older > > > version around. With the info on XFree86 web site can I do a source > > > build? What is required to do this? Is there a work around for > > > putting 7 and 8 on without LILO. In other words can I still use a boot > > > floppy? Right now my disk is relatively clean. I just reloaded the old > > > version of Slackware Linux and could reinstall if I had to. > > > It's easy enough to uninstall LILO later, but you should first build a > > non-modular kernel on a floppy, and verify that you can boot from it. > > > > I suspect you don't want to clobber another boot manager (System > > Commander, or the like). But, when LILO is installed, make a copy of the > ^^^^ > Ooops.................................................. it makes > > > previous MBR, and you can tell it to restore the old one later, which will > > also restore your previous boot setup. > > > As for XFree86 source, download the tarballs. Unpacking them will create > > an xc/ directory. Just `make World` and `make install install.man > > install.sdk` in that directory. > > Marc. > > +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ > | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | > | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | > | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ > | Edmonton, Alberta | | > | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | > | CANADA | | > +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ > XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. > > _______________________________________________ > Newbie mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
