Corel Linux

[gsublett at lava.net]

On 11-Aug-00 Jim Roby wrote:
> Anyone familiar with Corel Linux? I was on a newish Dell machine,
> friend wanted Linux put up,the mainboard supports ATA33,so Dell
> added a Promise66 card when it was marketed.I added a new drive
> and placed it on the mainboard interface.Now I have one drive
> running off the Promise card and one off the MB.The install
> CD for Corel doesn't see the drive(Win98) on the Promise card,
> and installed to the disk on the MB which it sees as hda.If I
> pull the cable on the promise drive,I boot Corel,if replaced,
> I boot Win98.How do I make a boot diskette that will boot Linux
> on hda...it looks like corel has made a boot partition on hda,
> and a root on hda1...there is a lilo.conf,I believe on hda.
> TKX

Jim,

I would think the proper thing to do is patch the kernel and recompile
to make use of the Promise66 card with linux. In any case a boot disk
howto can be found at:

http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/index.html

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Gary

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