[Wylug-help] Which Version of Linux?

[Philip Wyett]

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 20:35 +0100, david powell wrote:
> > Do _not_ partition any drive with an existing OS on it until you're
> > really confident about your understanding of low-level drive formatting.
> this is explained in the instalation manual that comes with suse and is easy 
> to follow 
> >
> > Stick to your original plan of using a separate Linux hard drive.
> yes better idea and if you use a boot floppy to boot linux then you dont have 
> to touch the windows boot sector 
>  
> >
> > All the mainstream distro installers will allow you to choose which
> > drive to install Linux onto and will offer to install a bootloader for
> > you in a sensible default configuration.
> >
> > The only vaguely 'tricky' decisions you have to make are:
> >
> >   1. Which bootloader to install.
> >
> >      Go for Grub.  It's more complex/powerful than LILO, but you don't
> >      need to know anything about the complexity. The installer will
> >      handle that for you with simple defaults.
> ok grub if its on hard disk but if you want to create a boot floppy for linux 
> and not touch the mbr or boot sector then lilo will fit on a floppy 
> >
> 

Hi,

Most modern Linux distributions no longer support a boot floppy as the
images are way over 1.44Mb.

The floppy is dead and hopefully it stays that way. :-)

Regards

Phil

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