[Scottish] Pin drop

[Huard, Elise - D C&W Consultant]

Sounds interesting : i'll try Tom's root&boot.  MS hasn't trashed anything
(yet), it just doesn't allow me to write Lilo on the MBR (NTFS), and so i
use a floppy to boot Linux from hdb1.  Which i forgot at home.
Thanks,


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	From:  Paul Millar [SMTP:paulm@astro.gla.ac.uk]
	Sent:  11 February 2003 18:16
	To:  scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk
	Cc:  'Allan Whiteford'
	Subject:  RE: [Scottish] Pin drop

	On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Huard, Elise - D C&W Consultant wrote:
	> i have a question, but it's probably not very interesting : forgot
my boot
	> disk at home, is there any way i could get Linux running ?  If no,
that's
	> alright, i'm asking out of curiosity.  I do have partition magic
if that
	> would help.

	Depends what you're after.

	If you're trying to get Linux up and running when MS has trashed
your MBR 
	then get a prebuilt kernel from somewhere and
	  dd if=kernel of=/dev/fd0
	  rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda1
	(or wherever your root partition is).  Although this does rather
require a 
	Linux machine up and running.

	Alternatively, if you want a "full" Linux distro, try getting Tom's
root
	and boot, install it onto a floppy and reboot.

	HTH

	Paul.


	> 
	> 	----------
	> 	From:  Allan Whiteford [SMTP:allan@whiteford.org.uk]
	> 	Sent:  11 February 2003 11:51
	> 	To:  scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk
	> 	Subject:  Re: [Scottish] Pin drop
	> 
	> 	willie fleming wrote:
	> 	> 
	> 	> <quiet ting>
	> 	> 
	> 	> either this list is broken or nothing interesting is
happening.
	> 	> --
	> 	> Best Regards
	> 	> Willie Fleming
	> 	> willie@itscotland.demon.co.uk
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