[aclug-L] Re: Question

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, you can boot from a floppy, and indeed you can make it boot
without a floppy if you convince LILO to install a boot sector on the
disk that your BIOS wants to do.  It is not a limitation of RedHat;
rather, it is a limitation of its install program (as you'll find with 
most distributions as well.)  You can do a little manual editing of
lilo.conf and convince it to do what you want.

Take a look at the LILO documentation -- if you need more help, let us 
know.

John

"Stephen A. Lee" <irondude@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

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> I was just at the last Linux Users Group meeting and I attempted to install 
> the Redhat 5.0 release of Linux with a buddy that has done it several times.  
> However, my system config seems to be a little on the strange side.  I've got 
> 3 SCSI drives and one Ultra-IDE drive and one Syquest drive which is IDE as 
> well.  The problem was, I was wanting to install it on my drive SCSI drive 
> which was D: in DOS.  Apparently, as we looked further into things, Redhat 
> says it won't work like that, it must be on the first SCSI drive ID0 or you 
> must be booting from the IDE drive (something I don't care to do).  Do you 
> know if there is a way to boot from a floppy and access the Linux partition?  
> We attempted this but was never able to locate the Linux partition again.  We 
> tried this several times.  Any suggestions.  BTW, I'm the person that has the 
> USB mouse.  Do you know if any of the other Linux distributions have this 
> limitation?
> 
> Steve
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