[Trimmed extraneous debian-isp and debian-dpkg cc:'s, hope that's enough] On Thu, 18 May 2000, Chris Wagner wrote:
> At 09:55 PM 5/17/00 -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom 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. Here's a URL that explains how to install LILO onto a drive other than the boot drive. Use the poorly documented features of lilo, "disk=" and "bios=": "Installing hdc to Boot as hda and Using bios=" http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/LILO-4.html -- David Manifold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://bespin.dhs.org/~dem/ This message is placed in the public domain.