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Linux Help Please

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SemperFi

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I am running 98SE, 2000, and Mandrake Linux 7.2.
I have installed Linux several times now. It will not make me a boot disk. I thought it may be because of the LS-120 so I put in a regular floppy, re-installed and yet no boot disk. Also I told install to put boot loader on my linux partition.

Where can I get an image of a boot disk? I have the installation cd's can I get it off of them.

I want to boot linux using my NT boot loader. I could use help doing that.

Also I am running an A7V with promise ATA-100 controller with 2 drives. I found instructions to get the promise to be reconized by linux from mandrakeuser.org and it worked well. But it says to add lines to lilo.conf and GRUB's menu.lst during installation. I did not get an option to do that. So I could use help to get the promise info into those files.

I know zero about Linux, therefore anything that can be done through windows or dos would help.

Thanks in advance!
 
I appear to have a boot disk now it wants to setup or upgrade linux. and wants to know where the RPMS are. I have already installed it.
I just don't know how to boot it. As stated above.

Thanks.
 
I'm not sure what you've done to create your boot disk, but I've got one made, and it doesn't ask me for the information that yours require. Since you are using Mandrake 7.2, you'll have no problems following my directions for making a boot disk. Regardless of how you are logged in, you'll have an icon on your desktop called DrakConf. If not, then open a terminal and type "DrakConf". You'll be asked for your root password. Once typed in and entered, a window with configuration options will be displayed. At the top, the icon called, "Tools for Booting" will be visible. Click on that and the rest should be self explanatory.

- Josh
 
Thanks for answering Josh.
I read on a couple of linux sites how to make one through windows. apparently it made me an install disk in case that cdrom is not bootable.

My problem is I can't boot to linux at all. I didn't put my bootloader for linux in the /MBR. I wanted to use 2000 bootloader. I just want to tinker with linux, so if I decide to get rid of linux I won't have to rebuild the 2000 boot loader.
 
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