installing slackware 8.0 with speakup

[Steve Holmes]

I would use /hda, assuming /hda is the drive your BIOS boots with.  When
doing a liloconfig, it should ask you if you want to put the boot image on
a partition of your choice or if you want it on the "master boot record"
of the drive and using that option will result in your lilo.conf file
having an entry like boot=/hda.  Also in liloconfig, you will be asked to
enter the items you want to include in lilo.  I would setup the windows
one first, followed by the linux option.  I say this because lilo, by
default, will use the first entry in lilo.conf to boot your machine; the
machine will boot into windows if no choices are made during the lilo boot
prompt.

I would strongly encourage you to read "man lilo" and "man lilo.conf" to
learn all the exciting options of lilo.  You can get lilo to work really
well for you that way.  Slackware's liloconfig script is just a beginning.
After liloconfig is done, take a look at /etc/lilo.conf to see what got
created; that can be edited freely once you understand the additional
options you might want/need.

On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Angelo Sonnesso wrote:

> I have two drives /hda, and /sda.
> I have "windows m e" on /hda, and zipspeak on /sda.
> I want to install a full version of Linux on /sda.
> Where do I put lilo, or  better yet what is the best way to set this up as a
> duel boot system.
> I need to keep windows on the system because of some projects  I am working
> on for my job.
> Any suggestions?
>
> > That shouldn't be a bad start but the slackware settup script should also
> > take you through a lilo configuration step.  Here is where you can specify
> > where your dos/windows partition is so you can include it.  For best
> > results, choose /hda (outside of any specific partition) for the location
> > of the boot image.  That's what I did and I have a dual boot system on
> > this machine.
>
>
>
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