From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 517 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2000 03:23:08 -0000 Received: from mail.redhat.com (199.183.24.239) by lists.redhat.com with SMTP; 26 Jan 2000 03:23:08 -0000 Received: from mercury.mv.net (root@mercury.mv.net [199.125.85.40]) by mail.redhat.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA27410 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 22:23:08 -0500 Received: from vanzandt.mv.com (root@vanzandt.mv.com [207.22.43.76]) by mercury.mv.net (8.8.8/mem-971025) with ESMTP id WAA24144 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 22:23:05 -0500 (EST) Received: by vanzandt.mv.com via sendmail with stdio id (Debian Smail3.2.0.102) for blinux-list@redhat.com; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 21:16:47 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 21:16:47 -0500 (EST) From: "James R. Van Zandt" To: blinux-list@redhat.com In-reply-to: (message from Leslie Fairall on Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:11:53 -0500 (EST)) Subject: Re: Instructions for installing Slackware References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: Leslie - If you are worried about setting up dual booting correctly, I suggest you start Linux with "loadlin" instead of "lilo". With loadlin, you make no changes to the boot sector. Just install loadlin.exe and your Linux kernel file (typically named zImage or bzImage) in some convenient directory in your DOS partition. Then, after booting into DOS, you can switch into Linux by running loadlin. Here's the command I use on my notebook: loadlin kernels/2-2-13/bzImage root=/dev/hda6 ro (Of course, I actually put this in a batch file so I can type just "linux".) - Jim Van Zandt >Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:11:53 -0500 (EST) >From: Leslie Fairall > >I am looking for instructions for installing Slackware. I'm not sure which >version, because I received it in September. I have a sighted friend who >is willing to help, but since I've never done this before, I am paranoid >about messing up my computer. The things I need to do after I install it are: > >1. Figure out when to install brltty >2. instructions for setting up a PPP connection >3. instructions for setting up realaudio. >4. be able to set up a dual boot between dos and linux. > >Any suggestions whatsoever would be very appreciated. Thanks.