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- From: hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin N9ITP)
- Subject: Re: Getting /Image for .97
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.140050.6513@news.acns.nwu.edu>
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- Reply-To: hpa@nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin)
- Organization: You must be kidding!
- References: <BtzJo5.Lyv@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 14:00:50 GMT
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- In article <BtzJo5.Lyv@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> of comp.os.linux,
- jbradsha@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jonathan Bradshaw) writes:
- > Apart from getting the source how can I get the /Image file for 0.97.1
- > rootimage? I installed it on my hard drive and everything works great
- > from floppy but I have the Os/2 2.0 boot manager and want to boot Linux
- > from it. I have grabbed lilo but don't have the /Image file it seems to
- > need. Anyone who has done this (using boot manager or lilo) please let
- > me know. Thanks.
-
- The Image file is the same file as the one you rawrote to floppy to boot
- that way. Put it in the root directory so LILO can boot from it. Shoelace
- users (incl. me) tend to call it /vmlinux rather than /Image ; it shouldn't
- matter.
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