From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 24 14: 2:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DD5237B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 14:02:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postfix2-2.free.fr (postfix2-2.free.fr [213.228.0.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D01E43E97 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 14:02:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from messmate@free.fr) Received: from localhost.localdomain (lille-5-a7-62-147-206-169.dial.proxad.net [62.147.206.169]) by postfix2-2.free.fr (Postfix) with SMTP id 92F5E5F875; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 23:02:32 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 22:41:52 +0200 From: messmate To: JFahnenmueller@t-online.de (Joachim Fahnenmueller) Cc: freebsd-questions-en Subject: Re: lilo installation Message-Id: <20020724224152.1f794363.messmate@free.fr> In-Reply-To: <17XIK4-2B9GIyC@fwd08.sul.t-online.com> References: <000001c23244$d99cebe0$98fcfea9@doctort> <17XIK4-2B9GIyC@fwd08.sul.t-online.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 21:34:34 +0200 JFahnenmueller@t-online.de (Joachim Fahnenmueller) wrote: | Hi Thorsten, | | On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 02:31:19PM +0200, Thorsten Pawlak wrote: | > Hi debain users, | > I?m a linux-newbie and have not much experiences with linux. | > | > My question: I got an old HD (1,8 GB) and installed linux on it. But I | > removed my usual windows HD from my Mainboard and jumpered the 1,8GB HD | > as the Master for installing linux. But now I want to use both HDs and | > install lilo with a boot menu to choose booting linux or windows. | > | > How can I install and config lilo now? | | First, before doing anything with lilo, make a bootable disk (if you haven't | yet) with mkboot. So you can boot even if something goes wrong. | Then read man lilo and man lilo.conf and configure lilo accordingly. (If I | understood correctly, you have already installed lilo on HD. If not, run | dpkg-reconfigure lilo.) Make sure to use the right device names: | /dev/hda master on 1st IDE connection | /dev/hdb slave on 1st -- | /dev/hdc master on 2nd -- | /dev/hdd slave on 2nd -- | > | > Maybe important:I haven?t installed the desktop environment yet. | | Doesn't matter. In debian, most config things are text-based. | > | > Sorry, for my English, maybe I made several mistakes. | | Doesn't matter either. Many who write on this list aren't native speakers. | (And those who are can be glad that we all use their language.) | > | > Thx a lot, the linux newbie ;-) | | HTH, Joachim | IMHO: windooz must be installed on the 1st HD ?? A+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message