From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 06:02:21 +0100 Message-Id: <00123106022109.01493@buffy> Subject: Re: [SLE] LiLo on floppy, how to make a copy? On Saturday 30 December 2000 09:07, Florencio B. de la Merced, Jr. wrote:

I've got SuSe 7.0 loading from a floppy via LiLo, apparently the disk isn't formatted though. I wonder how I can I make a backup?

You should be able to make another one via yast.. or... # Insert floppy to be copied in drive dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/boot.copy # Insert new disk in floppy drive fdformat /dev/fd0u1440 dd if=/tmp/boot.copy of=/dev/fd0 Don;t get the "if" and "of" the wrong way around ! Cliff

Or to make it simple, my reason to boot off a floppy is because I mainly boot W2K on the machine...Can Lilo load W2K by default (without typing WINDOWS) and boot Linux if I type Linux or Suse...

Oh btw, my experience with Linux is only a week old, so I'm quite green on this...(the mere fact that I got Suse 7.0, NVIDIA 0.9-5 with my GeForce2MX, and KDE 2.01 installed still baffles me...)

From: tabanna <tabanna@aig.forthnet.gr> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 11:17:30 +0000 Message-Id: <00123111203504.00366@AIG> Subject: Re: [SLE] LiLo on floppy, how to make a copy? Hi :) if you want to put LILO on a floppy, ~ believe you gotta : _____________________ 1) mkfs.minix -c /dev/fd0 1440 2) mount /dev/fd0 /mnt 3) /sbin/lilo -C /mnt/lilo.conf 4) umount /mnt ............................... Sure you can boot 1st 'win' 2nd 'lin' ~ you just gotta put 'win' at the top of your list, in /etc/lilo.conf when you edit this. best wishes for 2001 -- ____________ sent on Linux ____________ 100% Virus Free! AMD Inside