[olug] debian

[Eric Penne]

are you having the problem of not getting a prompt where you can type
the other OS's into?  I did that when I blew away my lilo.conf and I
had to add in the 

prompt

so that I could get the chance to choose OS.


Eric


--- Klaruz <pfiled at marietta.edu> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Lassek" <lunatik at radiks.net>
> To: <olug at bstc.net>
> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 10:32 PM
> Subject: [olug] debian
> 
> 
> > I just switched to Debian, and I have a few questions.
> >
> > 1. My machine was set up to dual-boot between Linux and Windows 98.
> But
> > now LILO won't let me specify an OS, it will only boot the default.
> How
> > do I get it to boot multiple OS's?
> 
> Lilo is just like lilo on any other distro, /etc/lilo.conf. I'm not
> going to
> go into how to use lilo, there have been lots of threads on this.
> Besides, I
> use grub on my x86, and yaboot on my g3 for my bootloaders. Lilo is
> just
> icky.
> 
> > 2. Can somebody tell me how to install kde from apt-get? It almost
> seems
> > like the KDE guys are trying to make it as hard as possible, since
> the
> > apt server they posted on their site gives me a 404. Do I have to
> > download each package and install them manually? I'm set up in a
> > comfortable Helix Gnome installation, but I wanted to try out kde2.
> 
> I'm not a kde person, but I know kde2 is in the unstable branch now.
> You may
> want to try that.
> 
> -- Daniel
> 
> 
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