installing slackware 8.0 with speakup

[Reinhard Stebner]

Thank you for the below information.  It sure makes lilo make more sense.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Holmes" <steve at holmesgrown.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: installing slackware 8.0 with speakup


> 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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