> All this makes sense, of course. What I don't understand is
> how something got written to the MBR and why my floppy drive
> is ignored now. To clear my SCSI drives 1 and 3, I'll have to
> do a low-level format.
>From an earlier message, I gathered that you DID tell the installation
program to
According to Bill Leach:
> The install and rescue floppies are indeed supposed to use the ramfs.
> Obviously the install floppy has to since at least most of the time
> there will be no other linux filesystem available. However, the rescue
> floppy does also because it has to be able to boot full
The install and rescue floppies are indeed supposed to use the ramfs.
Obviously the install floppy has to since at least most of the time
there will be no other linux filesystem available. However, the rescue
floppy does also because it has to be able to boot fully even if the
root partition is c
Gary Kline wrote:
>
> My Debian-1.3 came about a week ago. It didn't take that long
> to figure out the installation procedure; it is similiar to
> FreeBSD that I've used for around 3 years.
>
> However, after installing Debian on my first and third SCSI
> drives and *not* using LILO as the boot
According to Jean Pierre LeJacq:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> > According to Jean Pierre LeJacq:
> > > On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote:
> > >
> > > > However, after installing Debian on my first and third SCSI
> > > > drives and *not* using LILO as the boot manager, I found
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote:
> According to Jean Pierre LeJacq:
> > On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote:
> >
> > > However, after installing Debian on my first and third SCSI
> > > drives and *not* using LILO as the boot manager, I found that
> > > I __always__ boot into Debian, into
According to Jean Pierre LeJacq:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> > However, after installing Debian on my first and third SCSI
> > drives and *not* using LILO as the boot manager, I found that
> > I __always__ boot into Debian, into a RAM file system.
> >
> > After re-installing bo
On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote:
> However, after installing Debian on my first and third SCSI
> drives and *not* using LILO as the boot manager, I found that
> I __always__ boot into Debian, into a RAM file system.
>
> After re-installing both OS's from scratch several times I've
> come
This is just some quick 'off the top of my head' sort of things...
First, the 'ramdisk' problem. This is probably not caused by anything
associated with the booting process (though _can_ be--at least when
using LILO) but rather that the kernel is configured to use a 'ramdisk'
as root (/). I use
My Debian-1.3 came about a week ago. It didn't take that long
to figure out the installation procedure; it is similiar to
FreeBSD that I've used for around 3 years.
However, after installing Debian on my first and third SCSI
drives and *not* using LILO as the boot manager, I found that
I __alwa
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