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[Andy Ashbaugh <andy AT andyashbaugh.com>]

    Thanks! It works now.

Andy

3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Andy Ashbaugh wrote:
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> > Unlike BL3 which was happy to boot-up after the install process 
> > on a machine with no OS, 
> >    
>
> That is true for the floppy version of BL3 (which includes lilo);
> however the DOS version of BL3 still requires DOS.
>
>  
>
> > BL2 seems to need DOS installed in order to become the primary 
> > operating system. 
> >    
>
> Since the very first version of BL1, BasicLinux has booted from DOS 
> (for simplicity).  The use of lilo (instead of DOS) in the floppy 
> version of BL3 is something new.
>
>  
>
> > The problem here is that there is no OS currently installed on 
> > this box and I don't have any DOS installation disks. 
> > Can DOS installation disks be downloaded from somewhere? 
> >    
>
> A DOS boot floppy can downloaded from:  bootdisk.com
> The floppy will include fdisk and format.  Run fdisk to 
> create the DOS partition and make it bootable.  Then execute:
> ------------
> format c: /s
> ------------
> That's all you need to do to install DOS.   
>
>  
>
> > Can I make BL3 the computer's OS and then switch the boot loader 
> > over to BL2? 
> >    
>
> lilo needs to be reconfigured every time you change the kernel or 
> the location of the root filesystem.  The lilo in BL3 cannot be 
> run on BL2 (because BL2 and BL3 use different libraries).
>
>  
>
> > Is there a procedure for an install that doesn't involve having 
> > an OS already installed?
> >    
>
> I assume you mean for BL2.  It would be possible to boot the floppy
> version of BL2, install BL2 to HD and then install (and configure) 
> the lilo package from Slackware 7.1 *before* rebooting.  This would
> be quite tricky -- a tiny mistake in your lilo configuration would
> make your installation unbootable and you would have to restart with 
> the BL2 floppies.  I do not recommend this method for lilo newbies.
>
> A half-pie method would be to boot your HD installation of BL2 from 
> a floppy.  You could do this by editing the loadlin.exe line on the 
> first BL2 floppy (in autoexec.bat).  Or you could boot the first BL3 
> floppy, press CTRL when you see LILO, and redirect it to the HD
> partition where BL2 resides.  For example, if BL2 is on /dev/hda2:
> -----------------
> hd root=/dev/hda2
> -----------------
>
> IMHO, the simplest method is to put DOS on the first partition and 
> use loadlin.exe to boot Linux.  Eventually, if you wish, you can 
> install lilo and remove DOS (once you are sure lilo it is working 
> properly).
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
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