Debian installation

[Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,

>>>>> "Prasanna" == Prasanna Venkatesh P <ug96073@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
    Prasanna> stuck in the process of creating LILO boot. It said it
    Prasanna> was not able to install it on the root partition and the
    Prasanna> reason it gave was that it could be more than 1 Gig -

You can try to run lilo -v -C full_path_2_config_file on the alternate 
shell and see what it cribs about.

    Prasanna> but it was only 830 M. I tried creating a boot floppy
    Prasanna> with a new formatted TDK floppy with Write protect off -

Do you mean to say that you couldnt create a boot floppy?  That is wierd.

If none of this works and you want to boot into debian inspite of the
LILO goofing up and you have dos you can just boot into dos and boot
linux off the CD using loadlin.exe (which is on the CD).

typically one does 
CDROM:> loadlin kernel-image-which-you-want-to-boot root=/dev/hda?

and then once you have booted linux run lilo -v and see what it cribs
about.
  
prabhu
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