[ILUG] Corel Linux Boot Disk

[Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin)]

Okay, no-one else has answered this yet ...

Luke, this is an easy enough one, you'll be glad to hear ...

a) Go into Linux
b) Open /etc/lilo.conf in your favourite editor
c) There will be two sections (hopefully) one marked Windows and one marked
Linux, you have now got a choice of two steps
	If there's a line that says "default=linux" (or something similar),
change it to read default=windows (or the label of your windows section)
	or swap the positions of the windows and linux sections
	** the first is the easiest, if default=xxx isn't there, you can add
it above the first section header **
d) Open a command line (Xterm / terminal etc) and type "/sbin/lilo" (as
root, no quotes), lilo should print up the labels of each section with a *
beside the one to start first.

If you have problems, or there isn't a windows option, give me a shout :o)

Proinnsias



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Luke M Curley [SMTP:lukemcurley at edware.ie]
> Sent:	Sunday, April 30, 2000 20:32
> To:	ilug at linux.ie
> Subject:	[ILUG] Corel Linux Boot Disk
> 
> Hi, great web site.
> 
> I have a question to ask about Corel Linux, I only installed it about
> three
> weeks ago and I still very new to the whole Linux thing. I installed it
> onto
> a second hard disk on my PC so it won't affect my Win95 system, and I was
> hoping that I would be able to create a boot disk so I could run Linux.
> Linux installed LILO onto my Win95 machine into a partion so I could
> choose
> which OS I wanted to start, although this is a great feature Win95 is my
> main system and I prefer it to start up all the time, so I'm asking if
> there
> is a way of removing LILO from my Win95 system while still being able to
> access Linux through the form of a boot disk. I would be gratefull if you
> could help me with this.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Luke
> Kildare
> 
> 
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