Re: linux 4.0

[Peter Nilsson <peternil pnidv96 univ hv se>]

On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Janina Sajka wrote:

> LILO -- does that mean "Linux In and Linux Out" per chance??
> 
:-) No! Simpler than that: LInux LOader.

LILO is a boot manager, which lets you choose operating system when the
machine boots.

> More seriously, does one need Linux installed before one can use lilo? 

Yes. lilo is a program that you run _under_ Linux. It installs itself on
the boot sector of the (hard) disk, so the next time you reboot your
system, it shows you the LILO prompt and lets you select OS and give boot
command line arguments.

 > Or can you run it under DOS? If not, then Partition Magic is
still 
> probably the better solution at this point because it's where he and I 
> are, as opposed to where we're going to be after installing Linux.
> 

If you are looking for a program that repartitions your disk without loss
of data, I can recommend FIPS which I used. You can for example get it
from the install directory of any slackware distribution (sunsite or a
mirror).

/Peter

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