Re: [ILUG] Corel Linux Boot Disk

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin)" <breatpro at domain MLE.CO.UK>
To: "'Luke M Curley'" <lukemcurley at domain edware.ie>; <ilug at domain linux.ie>
Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 9:37 AM
Subject: RE: [ILUG] Corel Linux Boot Disk
> 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 domain edware.ie]
> > Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 20:32
> > To: ilug at domain 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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