routing/DNS

Andrew Rokitka drew82096 at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 25 17:15:12 EST 2002


yes...

however, anthony, you will have to set your "rdisk" setting to (1) and
"partition" to (1) also...If your second disk, booting linux, is on
another controller, modify the "multi" settings accordingly...


Drew


--- JJ Neff <jjneff at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I used to do this with my old server and a laptop.  I wanted the
> "accepted"
> boot.ini to come up and be able to go into Linux from there not use
> Lilo and go
> to boot.ini.  The Using Linux O'Reilly book has a pretty convoluted
> way that I
> can;t remeber if I used or not.  I will have to check tonight when
> I'm home.  I
> think I just added a line to my boot.ini
> 
> multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(5)="Linux" 
> 
> but I have to check If I actually had to copy my boot.ini or other
> files to the
> Linux \boot and keep it FAT so NT could find it.  Sorry so confusing
> but I will
> get you a better answer.
> 
> Basically Boot.ini just has to hand off to the Partition and then
> Lilo will
> load and go about it's business.
> 
> JJN
> --- "Riga, Anthony" <Anthony.Riga at searbrown.com> wrote:
> > Can someone show me the way to add lilo to the windows 2000
> boot.ini? So
> > I dont have to keep putting my disk in to boot to linux. I have
> linux
> > set on a second hard drive that I boot into.I  tried one off an
> example
> > off a web page and it didnt work. -- Thanks
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert Dege [mailto:rdege at cse.Buffalo.EDU]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 11:01 AM
> > To: nflug at nflug.org
> > Subject: RE: routing/DNS
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > router and Linux RedHat .. Now I need to get 7.2 and a bigger
> hard
> > drive
> > > and Im all set. I want to see what 7.2 is like . I am using 7.1..
> > 
> > The only main differences between 7.2 & 7.1 are updated packages,
> the
> > choice to use grub or lilo, and ext3 fs instead of ext2
> > 
> > packages updates are already available via updates from redhat.com
> > 
> > Grub is more of a power users boot loader, and is not as command
> > friendly
> > as lilo
> > 
> > ext2 partitions can be upgraded to ext3 without erasing the disk
> (kinda
> > like going from FAT16 -> FAT32, except that ext3 FS can be easily
> forced
> > back to ext2 without any data loss).
> > 
> > So in other words, unless you REALLY want to format and install 7.2
> > fresh,
> > there is no real reason to do so.
> > 
> > 
> > On a side note, Xfree86 4.2 just came out :)
> > 
> > Dege
> > 
> > So Many Things in Life Would Be Really Funny
> > .... If They Weren't Happening To Me
> 
> 
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