I am trying to install the 7-14-96 debian release on a machine with over 500 megabytes on an IDE hard disk. I want to have a DOS partition and a linux partition. At present fdisk shows:
> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 1 1 356 179392+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M > /dev/hda2 * 357 357 966 307440 83 Linux native > /dev/hda3 967 967 999 16632 82 Linux swap fdisk also displays a warning: > The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1025. > This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with: > 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO) The lilo documentation says: >Note that large partitions that only partially extend into the "forbidden >zone" are still in jeopardy even if they appear to work at first, because >the file system does not know about the restrictions and may allocate disk >space from the area beyond the 1024th cylinder when installing new kernels. Lilo suggests either using LOADLIN or booting from the DOS partition: > In order to accomplish this, the DOS partition is mounted read-write, a > directory (e.g. /dos/linux) is created, all files from /boot are moved to > that directory, /boot is replaced by a symbolic link to it, the kernels are > also moved to the new directory, their new location is recorded in > /etc/lilo.conf, and finally /sbin/lilo is run. I tried creating a subdirectory c:\linux in DOS, then from linux: mkdir ./dos mount /dev/hda1/linux ./dos cp /boot ./dos At this point, I got some warning or error messages. It looks as though file names got truncated, and in some cases discarded completely. >From ls /boot: > System.map-2.0.6 chain.b > any_b.b map > any_d.b mbr.b > boot.0302 os2_d.b > boot.b vmlinuz-2.0.6 >From ls ./dos: > any_b.b map > any_d.b mbr.b > boot.030 os2_d.b > boot.b system.map > chain.b I would appreciate some hand-holding at this stage. Exactly what commands do I type to carry out the lilo instructions (specifically, the symbolic link and copying the kernel)? Or would I be better off trying loadlin? Sorry this has been such a long post. Thanks for your patience!