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echo: locuser
to: david begley
from: Paul Edwards
date: 1996-10-24 07:27:16
subject: linux

PE> Page 15, says "consult the LILO-HOWTO".

db> Well, that's not the "linux-howto"!  :-)

PE> I found that directory, but there is no LILO* in there.  There is a
PE> LINUX* in there.  But untarring that, there is no LILO* in there,
PE> either.

db> (rummage, rummage)  It's in the "mini" subdirectory. 
C'mon Paul, do I have 
db> to do everything?!?!

That file is called "LILO", not "LILO-HOWTO".  Like I
said, I spent 2 hours trying to find a LILO-HOWTO.  I couldn't find it in
the LS_LR file, so I assumed it was in some archive, and I needed to
extract the right one.  That mini-howto is woefully inadequate.  As I've
sighted the correct document before (albeit in printed form in the Quick
Installation guide), I was after something that would tell me about
>1024 cylinders, LBA, using fdisk and going into expert mode to 
override the cylinder count, etc etc.  I had already found that mini-howto
myself, I was looking for something that had MORE information than was on
page 15 of the Quick Installation guide, not LESS!!!  Like I say, I spent 2
hours looking for it!

PE> It is connected to my Soundblaster card.  I don't know what that makes
PE> it.

db> It might be ATAPI, it might be SCSI, it might be
"proprietary".  It'd be 

That bit is all under control, Linux knows all about my CDROM.

PE> I have 64 meg of memory, I'm not expecting to swap.

db> Okay, have fun.  :-)

You disagree?  BFN.  Paul.
@EOT:

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