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Posted: Jan. 21 2007,21:52 QUOTE
right click Beaver icon to become super user to edit root owned system files.
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Posted: Jan. 29 2007,00:33 QUOTE
about to just bag the whole project (tho i may ge try gag first)  but just wanted to pass on my latest notes...

even when i open beaver as super-user, i still can not edit the menu.lst - i can highlight text, etc, but have not been able to add or delete anything.
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Posted: Jan. 29 2007,03:15 QUOTE
You'll have to first mount the partition that you installed DSL on, with the mount tool or the like
(since you are not running it yet, you cannot use /cdrom)

Then navigate to /mnt/hdXx/boot/grub/ and edit what you need, as root.
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Posted: Feb. 01 2007,02:55 QUOTE
latest installment of my saga...
tried to do the hd frugal install - frugal doesn't like hdb, insists in hda.

decided that my out-of-date cd of dsl might be part of the problem, so went ahead and made a new disk with dsl-n (i've got enough size and would still like as full of a linux as i can get...)

new livecd runs fine (as a livecd).
i am now allowed to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst as super (and supposedly save the changes - but every time i re-boot it brings back the old menu.lst - i suppose because i am back to the cd, and can not yet boot off the hd).
full install to hd still brings me the black grub screen of death.
frugal install still insists on hda.
i do have an old 500meg empty partition on hda (from win95), so i re-typed it as linux 83, and tried to use it for the frugal.  turns out that the livecd has mounted it as hda5 for a knoppix swap file (as well as claiming to use my hdb1 official swap partition), so it won't let me use the hda partition anyway.

ah well...
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Posted: Feb. 01 2007,03:00 QUOTE
I've got a DSL and FreeDOS dual-boot system, with LILO as the bootloader. It gives me a screen when I power up, with the option to choose which OS to boot. I can't remember exactly how I did it but it followed a bit of googling and then editing etc/lilo.conf

The FreeDOS is on a FAT32 partition, so it tells me I can have either "Windows" (which isn't installed, but it goes into FreeDOS instead) or "Linux" (which goes straight into DSL login).
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