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>9. Prepare <SPAN
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>(Thanks to Rick Masters for helping with this.)</I
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>We're assuming that <SPAN
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disk's Master Boot Record (<SPAN
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>MBR</SPAN
>); this seems to be the
most common configuration. You want to install <SPAN
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>LILO</SPAN
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what's presently the second hard disk but will become the first hard disk.</P
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>Edit the file <TT
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>/new-disk/etc/lilo.conf</TT
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>disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x80 # Tell LILO to treat the second
# disk as if it were the first
# disk (BIOS ID 0x80).
boot=/dev/hdb # Install LILO on second hard
# disk.
map=/new-disk/boot/map # Location of "map file".
install=/new-disk/boot/boot.b # File to copy to hard disk's
# boot sector.
prompt # Have LILO show "LILO boot:"
# prompt.
timeout=50 # Boot default system after 5
# seconds. (Value is in tenths of
# seconds.)
image=/new-disk/boot/vmlinuz # Location of Linux kernel. The
# actual name may include a version
# number, for example
# "vmlinuz-2.0.35".
label=linux # Label for Linux system.
root=/dev/hda1 # Location of root partition on
# new hard disk. Modify this as
# appropriate for your system.
# Note that you must use the name
# of the future location, once the
# old disk has been removed.
read-only # Mount partition read-only at
# first, to run fsck.</PRE
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>Slackware only. </B
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>If you're using a <SPAN
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add a line with <B
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<TT
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>Install <SPAN
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>The <TT
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>LILO</SPAN
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