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- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.125515.14699@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
- From: khmak@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
- Date: 17 Dec 92 12:55:14 -0500
- References: <1992Dec15.164921.24146@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de> <!n#@byu.edu>
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- In article <!n#@byu.edu>, ecktons@sirius.byu.edu (Sean Eckton) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec15.164921.24146@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de>
- > greve@rs1.thch.uni-bonn.de (Thomas Greve) writes:
- >> In article <1992Dec11.192003.10358@ultb.isc.rit.edu> djs6015@ultb.rit.edu
- > (Don Smith) writes:
- >> >
- >> >Hi There...
- >> >
- >> >Does anyone have any info that can help me make my Linux Partition
- >> >bootable from the Boot Manager? When I try to boot it from the Boot
- >> >Manager it says that its not a formatted drive... help!
- >> Linux comes with it's own boot manager, but i don't have any
- >> experience with it, yet.
- >
- > Get the utility LILO and it will create the boot information on your Linux
- > partition. That should make the boot manager recognize the partition as
- > bootable. You might also have to set certain flags in FDISK (OS/2 FDISK) to
- > make it work, but I can't remember because it has been too long since I've
- > done it and I not longer have LINUX on my machine because my OS/2 partition
- > was full and I needed 60 more meg. The documentation for LILO isn't very
- > clear, but there is a file you have to edit to specify the partition to
- > install the boot sector on. BE CAREFUL!
- >
- > --
- > Sean Eckton=-
- > Internet: ecktons@sirius.byu.edu Brigham Young University, Provo, UT.> Packet Radio: kd6bik @ wb7esh.#orem.ut.usa.na
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- I've been seeing people talking about Linux. Can anyone tell me where I can
- get a copy of it ?
-