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Files

Some of the files contained in lilo.16.tar.gz:

lilo/README

This documentation in plain ASCII format. Some sections containing complex tables are only included in the LaTeX version in doc/user.tex
lilo/INCOMPAT

List of incompatibilities to previous versions of LILO .
lilo/CHANGES

Change history.
lilo/QuickInst

Quick installation script.
lilo/Makefile

Makefile to generate everything else.
lilo/*.c, lilo/*.h

LILO map installer C source.
lilo/*.S

LILO boot loader assembler source.
lilo/activate.c

C source of a simple boot partition setter.
lilo/dparam.s

Assembler source of a disk parameter dumper.
lilo/disktab

Sample disk parameter table. (Obsolete.)
lilo/mkdist

Shell script used to create the current LILO distribution.
lilo/doc/README

Description of how the documentation is generated.
lilo/doc/Makefile

Makefile used to convert the LaTeX source into either DVI output or the plain ASCII README file.
lilo/doc/user.tex

LaTeX source of LILO 's user's guide (this document).
lilo/doc/tech.tex

LaTeX source of LILO 's technical overview.
lilo/doc/*.fig

Various xfig pictures used in the technical overview.
lilo/doc/fullpage.sty

Style file to save a few square miles of forest.
lilo/doc/rlatex

Shell script that invokes LaTeX repeatedly until all references have settled.
lilo/doc/t2a.pl

Perl script to convert the LaTeX source of the user's guide to plain ASCII.

Files created after make in lilo/ (among others):

lilo/any_b.b

Chain loader that swaps the first two floppy drives (i.e. ``A:'' and ``B:''). make install puts this file into /boot
lilo/any_d.b

Chain loader that swaps the first two hard disk devices (i.e. ``C:'' and ``D:''). make install puts this file into /boot
lilo/boot.b

Combined boot sector. make install puts this file into /boot
lilo/chain.b

Generic chain loader. make install puts this file into /boot
lilo/os2_d.b

Chain loader to load OS/2 from the second hard disk. make install puts this file into /boot
lilo/lilo

LILO (map) installer. make install puts this file into /sbin
lilo/activate

Simple boot partition setter.
lilo/dparam.com

MS-DOS executable of the disk parameter dumper.



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Ross Biro
Sat May 20 13:51:22 PDT 1995