[linux-help] Re: Debian/apt guru required...

["Dale W Hodge" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Jeremy King
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> I'm in the process of whacking mandrake off of all my
> machines and replacing it with Debian.  A simple
> gateway ipmasq server is working wonderfully.  But, on
> my second box I spent a long time picking through the
> dselect package list only to discover that neither
> lilo nor grub really appreciate my current
> partitioning scheme (this is my dual-booting game
> box). I don't see any way of fixing the partition
> table short of obliterating the debian install.  I
> wouldn't mind doing this, but I really don't want to
> repeat my effort going through the package selection
> process a second time.

Since you are dual booting, have you considered using loadlin?  It's very handy
and can accomplish some things that normal boot loaders can't.  Loadlin is a dos
application that kicks dos out of memory and proceeds to load linux.  You will
have to copy the kernel to the dos partition, and pass it parameters such as:
loadlin c:\vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb2 ro. With it, you can boot from any partition
on any drive! On my dual boot system, I have a windows shortcut defined that is
marked "run in MS DOS mode". When I click on it, it unloads Windows, run loadlin
and boots into linux. Very slick!

Try it, you'll be pleasantly surprised.

--dwh

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Air Capital Linux User's Group  (ACLUG)
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