Re: linux 4.0

[David Cohen <dcohen@infi.net>]

Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> LILO -- does that mean "Linux In and Linux Out" per chance??
> 
> More seriously, does one need Linux installed before one can use lilo?
> Or can you run it under DOS? If not, then Partition Magic is still
> probably the better solution at this point because it's where he and I
> are, as opposed to where we're going to be after installing Linux.
> 
>                                 Janina
> 
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LILO Stands for "Linux Loader".  A small part of LILO resides in the
boot
sector of the drive that your system boots on.  Using LILO, you can
easily
boot to several operating systems, without having to actually run Linux.

There is a "chicken and egg" problem in that in order to install LILO,
you
must be able to run Linux first.  Once you are able to do that, you only
need run Linux if you allow the loader to run it.

There is an alternative to LILO that runs under DOS, called LOADLIN,
that
will allow you to boot to Linux.  I think that it only boots to Linux, 
though.  You can use it DOS, and I have used it to boot from Windows95. 
LOADLIN is part of the Slackeware distribution.

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