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- From: zuazaga@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga)
- Subject: Re: A few basic questions...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.132152.13681@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
- Keywords: bootimage, shoelace, lilo
- Organization: University of Cincinnati
- References: <7873@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>
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- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 13:21:52 GMT
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- In article <7873@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> liebgold@mott.seas.ucla.edu (Dan M. Liebgold) writes:
- >I have a few questions that probably been answered, but not in the FAQ.
- >First, is the only way to get the kernel for shoelace to grab the
- >source and compile it yourself?
-
- No, grab a bootimage of your choice (like from tsx-11), then copy it
- to /vmlinux or /etc/Image or whatever. If you have the bootimage on a
- dos floppy (not a rawritten floppy) you can use mtools or the dosfs to
- copy it to your linux partition. If the only copy you have has already
- been rawritten to a boot disk then you might be able to use dd to get
- it off, but I'm not certain.
-
- After copying the bootimage, use rdev to change the root partition
- (eg., rdev /vmlinux /dev/hda2 to boot off of the second partition on
- drive C:). Then use shoelace or lilo to install the boot image. I
- think there's a different program on the rootdisk to change boot
- partition information, but I forget the name, rdev's on the
- MCC-interim.
- --
- Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga zuazaga@ucunix.san.uc.edu
- Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics University of Cincinnati
-