Very Computer

First off let me apologize for being an aol user. I am switching.

I have a 1 gig win 95 quantum c drive, a 3.2 gig quantum d drive the is
free to be used as needed.

i have a 500 MB first partition on D to boot linux from.

Unfortunately my D drive(which I just got) came with ontrack software that
allows me to use greater than 500 MB drives.
The ontrack banner needs to load before anything else. After that it gives
me a boot to floppy option.

I wrote lilo to MBR on C: but it hangs with LI   unless I manage to load
ontrack first.
One way I can do this is to have the non- boot ontrack disk in the floppy
when I start. That magically manages to load ontrack and then gives me the
non system disk message after which i take out the floppy and everything
is fine! Lilo works.

How to I get the stupid ontrack to load before lilo?
Is that the problem?

I format my d drive with ontrack software.

I then reformat the partitions that i want to be linux during linux
installation (red hat 4.2).

- philip

Quote:> First off let me apologize for being an aol user. I am switching.

Quote:> I have a 1 gig win 95 quantum c drive, a 3.2 gig quantum d drive the is
> free to be used as needed.

> i have a 500 MB first partition on D to boot linux from.

> Unfortunately my D drive(which I just got) came with ontrack software that
> allows me to use greater than 500 MB drives.
> The ontrack banner needs to load before anything else. After that it gives
> me a boot to floppy option.

> I wrote lilo to MBR on C: but it hangs with LI   unless I manage to load
> ontrack first.
> One way I can do this is to have the non- boot ontrack disk in the floppy
> when I start. That magically manages to load ontrack and then gives me the
> non system disk message after which i take out the floppy and everything
> is fine! Lilo works.

> How to I get the stupid ontrack to load before lilo?

Quote:> Is that the problem?

Quote:> I format my d drive with ontrack software.

> I then reformat the partitions that i want to be linux during linux
> installation (red hat 4.2).

HTH -- Me.
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 you're better off dead.
There's a gun in your hand,
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