> 1. is easily doable. lilo should be happy (make sure you write to the correct > hdd).
How? By putting boot = /dev/hdc in lilo.conf, and then specifying /dev/hda1 as root (which is what the disk will be when it gets put in the other machine) > But why not just move the floppy over to the floppy-less machine? Because the floppy-less machine is rather fussy about floppies.... :( Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ Debian GNU/Hurd - love at first byte