Hi Tom, Thank you for all these explainations.
It is right I did not really need to install tomsrtbt... ... just trying to boot it from hard drive because I'm trying to use loadlin (to be able to make it work in various situations). I'll search in mailing list. Regards. -- Stephane. Le Vendredi 7 Novembre 2003 16:42, Tom Oehser a �crit : > > Probably not /proc > > True. > > > What about /dev? > > You do want /dev. > > > You'll probably say "What the hell a so newbie user wants to use tomsrtbt;o)!" > > I support and encourage newbies to use tomsrtbt. I define > "use tomsrtbt" as "run tomsrtbt in ramdisk from floppy or CD" > and "customize the floppy for various special needs". > > I intentionally discourage installation of tomsrtbt to hard drive. > > Partially this is because there are many hd-installable > Linuxes, I think things like DragonLinux or DosLinux, that > can boot from loadlin, and which have many things that the > tomsrtbt does not. For example, a hard-drive boot should > be doing an fsck on the hard drive as part of booting- and > tomsrtbt does not- so if you just install it- you are at risk. > > The thing is, again, tomsrtbt is for booting from floppy, to > rescue hard drives. If you are installing Linux on a hard > drive, I think there are many reasons *not* to use tomsrtbt > as the distribution installed on the hard drive, and that > isn't a capability that I am going to make changes to the > base tomsrtbt in order to make it safer or easier... > > It is more of a parlour trick if you are marooned on an > island with a laptop and a tomsrtbt diskette... > > If you fish enough in the mailing list archives, though, > you will find all the answers to this question, how to do it. > > -Tom > > -- Stephane Boireau Personne ressource TICE du coll�ge Le Hameau � Bernay (27)
