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Re: Linux Redhat installation and networking



At 09:27 26/06/01 +0300, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Jeremy Hoyland wrote:
>
> > Something no-one has said 'cause it's obvious ;-) When installing Linux,
> > DO NOT SKIP the "create a boot diskette" stage!
>
>Actually, with a bootable installation CD, I rather skip the boot diskette
>creation, and in case of such a problem, start an installation, and when
>it has got far enough, chroot into the original system and run whatever I
>need (usually: /sbin/lilo)
>
> >
> > Something you should consider: If you plan to be compiling and 
> installing kernels
> > pretty frequently you should make the effort to get LILO working. This is
> > because the NTloader solution requires the following steps (IIRC):
> >
> > Copy bzImage to /boot partition, edit lilo.conf (perhaps) and run lilo 
> (must)
> > <if LILO is in your MBR, you stop here>
> > peel off a copy of the boot partition lilo just created for you:
> >    dd if=/dev/hda5 of=/tmp/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
> > copy this bootsect.lnx (somehow) to drive C:\, but save the original 
> one first!
> >
> > You need to do lilo/dd/cp EVERY TIME you SNEEZE at your kernel image, since
> > lilo uses the actual physical location of the image on the disk 
> (remember - the
> > kernel image is loaded before anything gets "mounted"). This is also 
> the cause of
> > the 1024 cylinder limit, since early BIOSes couldn't address cylinders 
> beyond this
> > (modern lilos AND BIOSes can get round this limitation). (that's 
> logical AND)
>
>If grub would be used - will it be better?
>
> >
> > read the following mini-HOWTOs on http://www.linuxdoc.org/
> > LILO

This is a new mini-howto and its not old. Its updated in 13 May 2001. Thats 
a really good HOWTO with good description.

> > Linux+NT-loader

Really OLD its from 1997 but its still relevance because the information 
there maybe changed a little but not in the whole document.

> > Linux+WinNT

This is an updated document. Updated in 13 May 2001. very good document.

> > Linux+DOS+Win95+OS2

Very OLD document from 1997. This isnt relevance for this days. Its talking 
about OLD versions of OSes.

>IIRC some of them are relatively old. Would anybody comment on their
>relevance?



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>Tzafrir Cohen
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>http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
>
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