On 5/9/2000 7:34, Danny R. Gray at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 1) Distribution: The LTE 5000 uses a hot swapable
> FD/CDROM and does not support booting from the
> CDROM. I could not hot swap from FD to CDROM using
> the Storm Linux (SL2000) or Corel Linux boot disk
> & CDROM combination. I ended up going with Debian
> since I could run the boot.bat from the CD and
> install without having to use a boot floppy. This
> would be a great thing for SL2000 to do!!
Indeed it would. The next release of Storm should also support FTP, NFS, and
hard drive installs that will also help in this situation.
>
> I found out that no running fdisk /mbr from a
> Win98 boot disk did not return boot functionality
> of /dev/hda1 my "DOS" part. I even did the sys c:
> followed by fdisk /mbr to make sure I have system
> files. I have no problems using lilo and actually
> prefer it.
This is strange. It's always worked for me.
>
> 3) Since I have been using SL2000 and Corel Linux
> at the office, I am spoiled by the nice graphical
> boot menu. Does anyone know of any packages that
> will let me make my own for my new Debian Laptop?
>
Check freshmeat.net. I think more and more distros will start doing this.
Storm and Corel started the trend which I'm sure will follow with many other
distributions.
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