Re: Help with Linux.

[Karan Girotra <karan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 05 Jul 1999, you wrote:
hye,
Boot into linux as root and just run 'lilo -v ' to write  boot info on your mbr
..
ps -before running lilo do check ur /etc/lilo.conf file for any changes you
might want to make .

and if u want a graphical bootloader try using a utility called gag available
at the freshmeat archives ..
regards 


>Hi,
>
>I have been able to setup the new hard disk. Thanks for the info. 
>
>Rightnow, I am using a floppy disk to boot linux. If I dont use the
>linux boot floppy, The C-Drive automatically boots MS-DOS. Now, what
>should I do so that I can get a choose between MS-DOS and Linux at the
>time of booting - This is because If the floppy gets corrupted or
>something of that sort, then I wont be able to boot linux (or is there
>any other way?!). Currently all files related to Linux are present in my
>E drive. The hard disks are like this,
>Hard disk 1 has the drives C, D and E (/boot and stuff lie in E)
>Hard disk 2 has the drive F (The new disk that I added to get some more
>disk space).
>
>C and D are used for MS-DOS. E and F are used for linux.
>
>Can someone please help me with this.....
>
>Thanks in advance
>Subbiah
>
>S Ravi Shankar wrote:
>> 
>> On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 12:33:02PM +0530, Subbiah Muthukalayappan wrote:
>> -> open vi, temporary files are not being opened. Now that I have managed
>> -> to get another hard disk of 125 MB capacity, how do I get out of this
>> -> problem. I am not very sure of how to mount disks, make file systems and
>> -> stuff or add swap spaces. I need help with this. I also need to install
>> -> this lilo. This I couldnt do during install. How do I put LILO
>> -> bootloader now?
>> 
>>         assuming you are connecting the new harddisk as secondary master [a
>> new cable that goes to another slot in the motherboard] do the
>> following:
>> 
>> use "fdisk /dev/hdc" and make it a single partition [/dev/hdc1]
>> "mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hdc1" will create the file system for linux.
>> "mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /home" will make  the new hard disk act as the
>> /home partition. [copy any existing files to another place before
>> mounting and then copy them back here].
>> add the following entry to your /etc/fstab
>> /dev/hdc1               /home                   ext2    defaults 1 1
>> 
>>         this will mount the file system in the new hard disk as /home
>> everytime you boot up.
>>         You are not able to open temporary files because there is no room
>> left in the old hard disk. to overcome this do the following.
>> "rm -rf /tmp"  remove the existing /tmp
>> "mkdir /home/tmp"  create tmp in the new harddisk
>> "chmod 777 /home/tmp"
>> "chmod +t /home/tmp"  the default settings of /tmp
>> "ln -s /home/tmp /tmp"  make /home/tmp act as /tmp
>>         now you can work freely
>> --
>> With Regards,
>> 
>> S Ravi Shankar
>> 
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Regards ..
Karan Girotra,                       
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi  
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