RE: Mass install / Autoinstall (Was: Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.)
Long time ago in the past 'wagnerc@plebeian.com
[mailto:wagnerc@plebeian.com]' wrote
>
>> copy everything from the master drive to the copy, then run the
>> appropriate Lilo command to make that copy bootable. You can then
>> mount it in another machine and it's ready to go. You have to filter
>> some things out when you copy. See below.
>
>You can't do that, I've tried it before. Lilo can't be installed on any
>secondary disk. Don't ask me why because I don't know. There's a HOWTO
>about it.
>
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Hi to * !
( First of all, sorry for my english :)
IMHO LILO can be installed on secondary disks ( and on the first sector of a
bootable partition also ). Let me explain myself:
I have 2 HDD at home, one ( /dev/hda ) with M$ Win 95 & WinNT 'PlayStation'
( Job reasons :o( ) and the other ( /dev/hdc ) with Debian "Hamm" ( 'So old'
I know ;oD I'm try to upgrade but... unfortunately 'time is no friend of
mine' :( ).
I use (Commercial SW) V Communications' System Commander (
http://www.v-com.com/ ) to boot my machine with Linux and (gasp!) with M$
Win XX, and it works fine for me!
LILO was installed on MBR of the secondary disk ( /dev/hdc ), it shows an
alert 'LILO is not installed on primary disk' or something like that... but
it runs ;)
Try to add these lines ( don't remember exactly, I'm at the office right
now ) to your /etc/lilo.conf:
...
...
boot=/dev/hdc # my 2nd HDD
...
...
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hdc1 # or whatever your partition is ;o)
read-only
I'm no Linux guru, so please correct me if I've misunderstood you or I'm
wrong with anything.
Regards from Spain, Santy #;oD
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