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Re: [BL] Making a lilo boot floppy disk for DOS/BL3/BL2, was Re: Compaq Deskpro and Presario versus Basiclinux

From: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
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Subject: Re: [BL] Making a lilo boot floppy disk for DOS/BL3/BL2, was Re: Compaq Deskpro and Presario versus Basiclinux
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 11:19:49 +1200

sindi keesan wrote:
>
> Maybe Steven would be willing to post lilo, chain.b and
> boot.b for BL3.40.

All of those files are already in BL3 (floppy version).
Users of the DOS version can get them from Slackware 4.0.

> boot=/dev/fd0 (or boot=/dev/hda to install to hard disk)
> prompt (gives you a LILO boot: prompt)

I use "delay=50" instead of "prompt".
I recommend you add "compact".

> LILO boot:
> Nothing happens unless I type something.

That's because you used "prompt"

Cheers,
Steven

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