[lug] KRUD 6.1 password for lilo?

[Kevin Fenzi]

>>>>> "Nate" == Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> writes:

Nate> I just loaded 6.1 on a machine here and there WAS an option to
Nate> create a boot floppy, is that what you guys are talking about?
Nate> It's a checkbox on the same screen in the GUI-based install
Nate> program as the LILO configuration.

were you using the updated boot floppies? This is something they fixed
in the updated boot floppies I think...

Nate> Not sure if you force it down to text mode if maybe in that mode
Nate> they forgot it or whatever?

yeah, I think it might have been fixed in the updated (errata) boot
floppies. Perhaps it was always working in the GUI install? 

Nate> Nate, nate at natetech.com

kevin
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Nate> On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 10:51:03AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>> >>>>> "Lamar" == Lamar Zabielski <zeb at utalk.org> writes:
>>
Lamar> At 12:14 PM 12/13/99 , John Karns wrote:
>> >> Should be visible by booting from CD or floppy then viewing
>> >> /etc/lilo.conf
>>
Lamar> Thanks John for the reply. The Toshiba laptop reverted to
Lamar> default boot sequence, haven't figured out why yet, fdd hdd
Lamar> cdrom, and it may return to it at anytime I suppose, so how do
Lamar> I make a boot disk after installing, KRUD didn't offer that
Lamar> during install.
>>
>> yeah, redhat-6.1 doesn't offer that any more. I guess they wanted
>> to cut out a step in the installer. ;)
>>
>> You can go to a root prompt and do:
>>
>> mkbootdisk 2.2.12-20
>>
>> (or a diffrent number if you have installed a diffrent kernel,
>> thats the default one on KRUD/redhat 6.1).
>>
>> It will prompt you for a floppy and make a boot disk.
>>
>> kevin -- Kevin Fenzi MTS, tummy.com, ltd.  http://www.tummy.com/
>> KRUD - Kevin's Red Hat Uber Distribution
>>
>>
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