Re: Tomsrtbt on hard-drive with loadlin?

Hi Tom,

Thank you for all these explainations.

It is right I did not really need to install tomsrtbt...
... just trying to boot it from hard drive because I'm trying to use load=
lin=20
(to be able to make it work in various situations).

I'll search in mailing list.

Regards.
--
Stephane.



Le Vendredi 7 Novembre 2003 16:42, Tom Oehser a =E9crit :
> > Probably not /proc
>=20
> True.
>=20
> > What about /dev?
>=20
> You do want /dev.
>=20
> > You'll probably say "What the hell a so newbie user wants to use=20
tomsrtbt;o)!"
>=20
> I support and encourage newbies to use tomsrtbt.  I define
> "use tomsrtbt" as "run tomsrtbt in ramdisk from floppy or CD"
> and "customize the floppy for various special needs".
>=20
> I intentionally discourage installation of tomsrtbt to hard drive.
>=20
> Partially this is because there are many hd-installable
> Linuxes, I think things like DragonLinux or DosLinux, that
> can boot from loadlin, and which have many things that the
> tomsrtbt does not.  For example, a hard-drive boot should
> be doing an fsck on the hard drive as part of booting- and
> tomsrtbt does not- so if you just install it- you are at risk.
>=20
> The thing is, again, tomsrtbt is for booting from floppy, to
> rescue hard drives.  If you are installing Linux on a hard
> drive, I think there are many reasons *not* to use tomsrtbt
> as the distribution installed on the hard drive, and that
> isn't a capability that I am going to make changes to the
> base tomsrtbt in order to make it safer or easier...
>=20
> It is more of a parlour trick if you are marooned on an
> island with a laptop and a tomsrtbt diskette...
>=20
> If you fish enough in the mailing list archives, though,
> you will find all the answers to this question, how to do it.
>=20
> -Tom
>=20
>=20

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Stephane Boireau
Personne ressource TICE du coll=E8ge Le Hameau =E0 Bernay (27)