lesliek
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Posted: Mar. 31 2006,03:10 |
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Thanks very much for taking the trouble to reply, larkl.
The Compaq link you gave is, as you say, to the diagnostic software. I was concerned primarily with the setup software, because that's what's needed to change the bios settings. I got so far as to create a bootable floppy disk with the setup software on it. However, I haven't been able to get any further yet. I can't use the floppy disk I've created, because the bios is presently set to boot first from the cd drive, secondly, from the hard disk and finally from the floppy disk. I believe that it's possible to create a bootable cd, which could be substituted for the bootable floppy. I've been reading about that process, but don't yet understand enough about it to try to create a bootable cd.
As to my query about editing lilo.conf, I agree with you.
I did think about switching from lilo to grub. In fact, I went so far as to try to run the frugal-install-grub script. However, I chickened out in mid-stream, because the grub script wasn't asking me the same questions as the script that's used with lilo. I can remember that it didn't ask me about boot options (or, at least, not when I expected it to). Since I'm not confident about these things at the best of times, I decided not to persist with the grub script.
If I can get the bootable cd going, then grub v lilo won't matter and all that I'll have done wrong is to leave in existence an unusable 4MB partition. As the machine's hard drive is a massive 4GB, that won't be too terrible.
Thanks again,
Leslie
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