[techtalk] Older versions of distros

[Beverly Guillermo]

> In  installed Linux on my secondary hard drive and I use lilo to boot.  I
> didn't install any portion of Linux on my master Hard drive.  If you do
> this though, when you want to run linux you'll need to do boot with a
floppy.

You don't really need to boot from a floppy, just make sure that you have
in your /etc/lilo.conf the correct device name to boot from and you write
lilo onto
your master boot record.

> I did it that way because of my paranoia with Windows :)

Heh.  The only problem that exists is between NT, I don't think Windows9x
has a problem with lilo in the mbr.

Beverly


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