[techtalk] loadlin and 96mb ram

[Anne Forker]

On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Bilal Muddassir wrote:

> >So do I 'cause I don't have loadlin installed. ;-) It's a file containing
> >some boot parameters for the linux kernel (therefore the suffix "par").
> 
> umm so it is as easy as making a linux.par file in the C:\LINUX directory 
> where my LOADLIN.EXE and BZIMAGE kernel image is stored?

surely. Well, I don't know whether usage of the linux.par file is a
SuSE-specific thing, but I don't think so. In this file you save the
information about where your kernel resides, about the device file which
represents your root partition and additional settings. There are several
HOWTOs about dual-booting Windows and Linux, Linux boot parameters and
usage of loadlin.
 
> PS: By the way, the Slackware 7.0 default everything-install resulted in a 
> very very slow PPP link. What might be the problem? Or else how should I 
> proceed in order to make it faster. Like on my external 56k USR I only get 
> 400b/s on average. Recompiling a customized kernel did not solve the 
> problem. Grr

Hm, I don't have any Slackware experience -- maybe someone else may answer
this question?

-- Anne