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How to install LILO

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Stanj

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I have installed Debian in another partition(in addition to Windows ME).So far I can only boot Debian from the rescue floppy.
I want to install LILO so that I can dual boot.After booting Debian from the floppy I login as root and issue the command
/usr/doc/lilo but bash returns 'is a directory'.How can I read the lilo documentation?
I am new to Linux.
 
Do a "whereis lilo" from command prompt. If it's there, you should have an output something like this,

$ whereis lilo
lilo: /sbin/lilo /sbin/lilo.real /etc/lilo.conf /usr/lib/lilo /usr/share/man/man8/lilo.8.gz

What you want to do is edit /etc/lilo.conf (#vi /etc/lilo.conf) as root, and then rerun lilo (#/sbin/lilo). Refer to the man page for LILO if you need any help ($man lilo). If you don't have the man pages installed, su to root and then apt-get install man...
 
After login as root,I went to command prompt and issued: $whereis lilo and I get back
/etc/lilo.conf : No such file or directory.
Then I issued : su and then
: apt-get install man
Reading package Lists ... Done
Building Dependency Tree ... Done
Note,Selecting man-db instead of man
Sorry,man-db is already the newest version.
0 packages upgraded,0 newly installed,0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
 
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.I had not configured APT and that was the reason I was unsuccessful with the
'apt-get install man...'
 
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