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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> > 
> > Is there some way to install from floppy disk and use 
> > loadlin?  
> 
> Not easily.  If you have a bootable DOS partition, you should
> use the DOS version.
> 
> > My laptop computer is short of disk space.  I don't have 
> > room for a 15MB DOS loop version and also a linux partition 
> > of a reasonable size.  Can I put the kernel in a DOS partition 
> > and boot with it as in BL2?  
> 
> Yes, you can boot any Linux root partition by using loadlin.
> Just steal the kernel from the Linux /boot directory (or 
> wherever it is stored) and put it on the DOS partition with
> loadlin.exe.
> 
> > Or does the lilo version offer a choice between DOS and 
> > linux?  
> 
> No.


Can the 2-floppy version be installed without lilo going into the mbr, or 
installed with lilo, then remove lilo by fdisk /mbr, after copying the 
kernel in a DOS linux-loadlin partition with loadlin?  Or is there a 
better way to remove lilo?  Is the kernel on the linux partition somewhere 
to be copied?  If not, is the latest kernel any different from the earlier 
versions of BL3?  I could copy it from elsewhere via DOS floppy disk if 
not.  (zimage or the 486 version).  I have never used lilo.

 > 
> > Can the 2-floppy version be installed from DOS partition
> > to linux partition without first making floppy disks?  
> 
> No.  The first floppy is an image file that needs to be
> written raw to the floppy.  It contains lilo, kernel and
> compressed root filesystem, all on the one floppy.
> 
> > If you put a bit more info on installation methods
> > there you might get fewer requests for explanations 
> 
> I'm not getting a lot of requests for explanations.
> 
> > from people who don't know which version to download 
> > for what purpose.
> 
> What's so complicated?  If you want to boot from DOS use
> the DOS version.  If you want to boot from floppies, use
> the floppy version.  Most newbies don't give two hoots about
> the mechanics of the booting process.

Someone else just wrote in asking how to install to hard disk, who had
obviously not yet tried the floppy version.  You said install-to-hd.

I don't recall the website mentioning that the two versions came with 
installation instructions.  Maybe I missed that, but so did he.


I will go learn to make the floppy version and then experiment with it on 
an empty drive.  We have several extra computers.  

> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
> 
> 
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