[ltp] 760XL with a BIG HD Problem

[James McKenzie]

Listers:

looked up more information on GRUB.  If you are using textinfo, type in 
the following command to get to the grub manual:

info grub

This will pull up the manual for grub and you should read through it for 
a great deal of information on grub.

You can use the info lilo command to get information on lilo.

You should only use one of either grub or lilo but not both.  I prefer 
grub with its graphical interface, but you can use lilo if you prefer a 
non-graphical interface.

James McKenzie

James McKenzie wrote:

> James:
>
> You might want to look at lilo.conf or grub.conf to see how they are 
> constructed.  I don't know about using a CD as a boot device from one 
> of them.  I do know that the device is /dev/hdc.  You should be able 
> to use this as the boot device for the CD, as most CDs do not have 
> partitioning, unless they are multi-session.
>
> James McKenzie
>
> James Knott wrote:
>
>> Adam Southerland wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Use the Parallel port as a NIC... Interesting Concept... Can 
>>> Slackware do that with the supplied boot/root disks?
>>
>>
>>
>> No idea.
>>
>>>
>>> How big is the partition? Doesn't matter - The smallest I tried was 
>>> 25Mb... As long as the 10Gb Drive has a partition on it, MS products 
>>> can't boot - Even from a Boot Disk! (I haven't ever seen this before)
>>
>>
>>
>> I don't recall the exact model, but I booted a ThinkPad of that 
>> generation (76x) with an 8 MB drive.  It worked fine with OS/2.
>>
>> I wonder if it's possible to put Grub or Lilo on that drive and tell 
>> it to boot from the CD?
>>
>> Also, is Slackware still available as floppy sets, so that you don't 
>> need a CD to install?
>>