Install to another hdd?

1999-02-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, I have a machine which I want to install debian on. Unfortunatly, it has not floppy drive; I can see a couple of possibilities: 1: put the hdd into my working linux box, and use the rescue disks to install onto /dev/hdc (Can I then install LILO onto that hdd, and have it boot

RE: Install to another hdd?

1999-02-05 Thread Shaleh
On 05-Feb-99 M.C. Vernon wrote: Dear all, I have a machine which I want to install debian on. Unfortunatly, it has not floppy drive; I can see a couple of possibilities: 1: put the hdd into my working linux box, and use the rescue disks to install onto /dev/hdc (Can I then install

RE: Install to another hdd?

1999-02-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
1. is easily doable. lilo should be happy (make sure you write to the correct hdd). How? By putting boot = /dev/hdc in lilo.conf, and then specifying /dev/hda1 as root (which is what the disk will be when it gets put in the other machine) But why not just move the floppy over to the

RE: Install to another hdd?

1999-02-05 Thread Shaleh
Easiest solution: 1) put the hard drive from bad floppy into working floppy as the master drive, in place of the current drive 2) install debian like normal 3) take drive and put it back in bad floppy Now both machines work. Have done this once or twice for various reasons.

Re: Install to another hdd?

1999-02-05 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Dear all, I have a machine which I want to install debian on. Unfortunatly, it has not floppy drive; I can see a couple of possibilities: 1: put the hdd into my working linux box, and use the rescue disks to install onto /dev/hdc (Can I then install LILO onto that hdd, and have it