From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mallard.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.48]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AmPky-0002Ul-00 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 22:55:48 -0500 Received: from h-68-166-89-140.chcgilgm.covad.net ([68.166.89.140] helo=linserver.romuald.net.eu.org) by mallard.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1AmPku-0007KC-00 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:55:44 -0800 Received: (qmail 17120 invoked by uid 1023); 30 Jan 2004 03:55:49 -0000 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:55:49 -0600 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20040130035549.GA17079@romuald.net.eu.org> References: <000001c3e6e2$7e017d10$6400a8c0@LapTop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000001c3e6e2$7e017d10$6400a8c0@LapTop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: Partitioning my ahrd drive for debian X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.3 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 03:55:49 -0000 You simply mount your boot partition as /boot, put all your boot files into it, and point your image directives in lilo.conf to /boot/whatever. Greg On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:38:14PM -0500, Jared wrote: > I have a machine that I need to dule boot with debian and windows 2000. > My windows 2000 partition goes up to the 768 silindar with bios > translation enabaled. I have a computer with bios that currently does > not support booting over the 1023 silidner boot limit. My question is > this. I have read the debian install manual but if I do the following > I'm not sure how to tell it what partition to mount as what. I want to > have the following partition set up > Windows 2000 partition, currently taking up about 768 silinders. I want > a /boot directly after that. I want a / that contains all my programs, > user directorys and so on. I can create the partitions but how do I tell > debian to use the /boot to boot off of instead of just the /? Appreciate > this as the fedora install was a lot easyer, but I want to use debian > instead for other reasons. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org