I've tried to use the doc at: http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/nt.html I've already got NT on my laptop (Dell Latitude CPx) with a C: and D:. During the SuSE 6.4 installation, I setup: /dev/hda3 Extended 2.5gb /dev/hda5 /boot 5mb /dev/hda6 /swap 300mb /dev/hda7 / 2.2gb And when asked about LILO during installation, the help doc says to install LILO in the Linux root partition, which should be /dev/hda7 for me, right? I did this, went with the default installation and when it was finished it said it had to reboot. Well, after it booted, it came up to WinNT (of course). So now I'm thinking, "How do I boot my Linux partition and run the dd command they recommend to get the bootsek.lin file created for NT to use for it's boot loader menu?" Thanks, Daniel And once back in linux, how do I specify the floppy for my outfile, is it just /floppy?
Daniel Casey wrote:
I've tried to use the doc at: http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/nt.html
I've already got NT on my laptop (Dell Latitude CPx) with a C: and D:.
During the SuSE 6.4 installation, I setup:
/dev/hda3 Extended 2.5gb /dev/hda5 /boot 5mb /dev/hda6 /swap 300mb /dev/hda7 / 2.2gb
And when asked about LILO during installation, the help doc says to install LILO in the Linux root partition, which should be /dev/hda7 for me, right?
Correct, although I installed it into the MBR (/dev/hda) and didn't have any problems. This was with NT4. IMHO this is much easier than this dd business. It makes playing with kernels so much more difficult if you have to use dd and do some copying after each run of LILO. LILO is much easier to configure than the NT bootloader, plus you can pass kernel parameters. If you install LILO in the MBR, when you boot into NT you still get the NT bootloader to select between the 'VGA mode' or the normal bootup.
I did this, went with the default installation and when it was finished it said it had to reboot. Well, after it booted, it came up to WinNT (of course).
So now I'm thinking, "How do I boot my Linux partition and run the dd command they recommend to get the bootsek.lin file created for NT to use for it's boot loader menu?"
Boot using the second SuSE CD and when YaST starts up, choose 'Boot installed system'.
And once back in linux, how do I specify the floppy for my outfile, is it just /floppy?
No, you should use the device file (/dev/fd0) if you want to put LILO onto a floppy. Hope that helps, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
Hi Daniel,
And when asked about LILO during installation, the help doc says to install LILO in the Linux root partition, which should be /dev/hda7 for me, right?
Right. (Depending on how big your harddisk is and where /dev/hda7 is located, you may run into problems with LILO: AFAIK LILO has to be installed on a Partition which is _entirely_ below 1024 cylinders. It is also possible to install LILO in /boot - /dev/hda5 in your case. The Documentation for SuSE 6.3 also says, that there is no guarantee that LILO will start properly when installed in an extended Partition - But don't worry, it might work, I just thought I'd mention it.)
So now I'm thinking, "How do I boot my Linux partition and > run the dd command they recommend to get the bootsek.lin file created > for NT to use for it's boot loader menu?"
Boot your Laptop from the installation CD or floppy and select "Boot installed system". (I'm not sure if this is exactly what it's called in the english version of suse, but there must be some similiar option.)
And once back in linux, how do I specify the floppy for my > outfile, is it just /floppy?
Depends what you mean by outfile: the floppy _device_ is usually /dev/fd0, /floppy on the other hand is the _mountpoint_ usually used for the floppy drive. So if you successfully bootet your installed Linux, insert an empty (dos-formatted) floppy in your drive, as root do mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy ('mount /floppy' should work too, yast usually makes an entry for /floppy in /etc/fstab.) then dd if=/dev/hda7 of=/floppy/bootsect.lin bs=512 count=1 Then reboot to NT and install the image file as described in the instructions. You only have to use the floppy if you do not have a FAT16 or FAT32 partition on your system. If you have, you can make dd write the output directly to a file on that partition. You can find out by root@<YOUR_HOST># fdisk -l Festplatte /dev/hda: 64 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren, 787 Zylinder Einheiten: Zylinder mit 4032 * 512 Bytes Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id Dateisystemtyp /dev/hda1 1 65 131008+ 82 Linux Swap /dev/hda2 66 66 2016 83 Linux /dev/hda3 * 67 473 820512 b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda4 474 787 633024 5 Erweiterte /dev/hda5 474 565 185440+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 566 787 447520+ 83 Linux As you can see I have one FAT32-Partition, /dev/hda3. HTH, Greetings, Till Rotter
os: suse v6.4 platform: ibm 300pl other app: webmin v0.82 other app: squid v2.3s3 to all you webmin admin out there... problem: user account added via webmin; some time after that, account fanishes from /etc/passwd and/or /etc/shadow. go back into webmin and add exact same account again. but it fails when challenged by squid. so back into webmin and add a character to end of account name, save, and challenge gets authenticated!! normally, adding an account in passwd/shadow, by unix rules, is fairly straightforward and problem free. any ideas why this is happening and how to solve/troubleshoot it?? rf
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Daniel Casey wrote:
I've tried to use the doc at:
http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/nt.html
I've already got NT on my laptop (Dell Latitude CPx) with a C: and D:.
During the SuSE 6.4 installation, I setup:
/dev/hda3 Extended 2.5gb /dev/hda5 /boot 5mb /dev/hda6 /swap 300mb /dev/hda7 / 2.2gb
And when asked about LILO during installation, the help doc says to install LILO in the Linux root partition, which should be /dev/hda7 for me, right?
yes
I did this, went with the default installation and when it was finished it said it had to reboot. Well, after it booted, it came up to WinNT (of course).
The disk's MBR still has the NT bootloader on it. It knows nothing about Linux yet.
So now I'm thinking, "How do I boot my Linux partition and run the dd command they recommend to get the bootsek.lin file created for NT to use for it's boot loader menu?"
You have to boot from a floppy. If you didn't make one, you may have to reinstall, and choose to make a rescue disk or "write boot sector to a floppy". There might be a way to boot off the install CD by typing "boot=/dev/hda7" at the first prompt. I dont know if that will work but I would try it before I re-installed I just set up a Win2K/SuSE7.0 dual boot using the guides at http://www.enterprisedt.com/publications/dual_boot.html http://www.littlewhitedog.com/reviews_other_00011.asp It is basically the same for NT. HTH
Thanks,
Daniel And once back in linux, how do I specify the floppy for my outfile, is it just /floppy?
/dev/fd0 should work
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