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To: gtoland who wrote (8223)	12/19/1999 6:06:00 PM
From: micromike	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9798

Check your BIOS to see if you can change the boot drive from C to D. I'm guessing that you are talking about a Corel product. I use linuxloader LILO which you should have installed. I'm not sure if it is supplied with Corel's product or not. I use Redhat Linux which supplies the LILO. Mike

To: gtoland who wrote (8223)	12/19/1999 6:09:00 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 9798

goto google search for loadlin Now you have to know is the D drive a partition on the fisrt drive or is it the second drive. Also howto.tucows.com Linux howtos Enjoy Tom Watson tosiwmee

To: gtoland who wrote (8223)	12/19/1999 6:10:00 PM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9798

GTOLand, that's a loaded question. Linux is not a program, rather, it's an operating system that controls your entire system. Do you have a boot loader like LILO installed? Did you install it on the MBR of the primary IDE controller and on the master drive or on the root partition of some other drive on another controller? Are you trying to start Linux from DOS? Do you have a OS loader already like System Commander? There are a lot of questions and it's way inappropriate to have your installation questions resolved on a stock forum. You need to get help from the your Linux distributor and probably some supplemental material from a bookstore on installing and configuring Linux.

To: gtoland who wrote (8223)	12/20/1999 10:49:00 PM
From: Paul Borghese	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9798

OK, I saw a few people replied telling you to use lilo. That is correct, except first you need to boot into Linux and mount the drive. If you have the deluxe version, call the Corel Helpdesk. I would be interested in hearing how you think of their support. The helpdesk will probably ask you to use the boot disk as if you were going to install the program. But break-out of the program, at which time you will be in a version of linux that will allow you to mount the drive. type: mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt This will mount your D drive. Then type: cd /mnt/etc Edit the file lilo.conf (you can use vi). Look for a line that says: boot=/dev/hdb Change the line to read "hda" instead of "hdb". You will also need to change the "image" lines and prepend the directory /mnt/ since you have mounted the disk in that directory. After you think everything is correct, type: /mnt/sbin/lilo -c /mnt/etc/lilo.conf This should install the boot image on the C drive allowing you to boot in Linux. Again, I recommend you call the HelpDesk if you are just starting with Linux. And one final thing. Just in case things go very wrong, remember you can always restore the disk to boot into DOS by using the dos command: fdisk /mbr Best of luck, Paul Borghese