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Re: Installing Linux on a new Compaq Armada 1700!



On Fri, 1 Jan 1999, Hashibon Adham wrote:

Boot with the rescue diskette, edit lilo.conf, tell it to use the master
boot record, run /sbin/lilo, reboot.

--Ariel

> Hi, We are -- right at this moment -- installing RH 5.2 on a new Compaq
> Armada 1700 lptop which comes with 5GB disk space, of which 1GB are W$95.
> 
> Now we have finished, but donea crucial mistake! we chose the boot
> sector to be on /dev/hda5 (which is the Linux partition) instead of the
> master boot,
> 
> Any suggestions!!!!!
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> Thanks,
> adham
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> Adham Hashibon
> The Physics Department,
> Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
> Haifa 32000, Israel
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