having trouble getting Grml installed

[Michael Prokop]

* Scott Berry <electronicman1961 at myfreedombox.com> wrote:

> What would be the best partitioning scheme to get Grml on My system?  I 
> have tried one big partition.  I have also tried making a 15Mb bootable 
> partition and the rest of the 10Gb disk for Grml and I call it a Linux 
> partition with the number 82.  I have also tried making three 
> partitions one was bootable, one was swap, and the rest was whatever 
> Grml wanted to put on.  The big problem I am finding though is that 
> Lilo is having trouble installing.  So some ideas on partitioning for 
> Grml would be greatly appreciated.

Use id 83 for root partition and id 82 for swap. You don't need a
bootpartition for grml.  Let's assume /dev/hda1 is your swap
partition. You want to install grml on /dev/hda2 and you don't have
any other system on your disk. Just run:

# grml2hd /dev/hda2 -mbr /dev/hda

This will install grml on /dev/hda2 and write master boot record
into /dev/hda. If you don't provide the '-mbr' option grml won't
touch the master boot record but will write lilo into /dev/hda2
instead. More details are available in the manpage (an online
version is available on http://grml.org/grml2hd/grml2hd.html).

HTH && regards,
-mika-
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