From: wyvern@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (The Wyvern) Subject: Re: Booting without a floppy Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1992 19:31:37 GMT
In article <1992Oct21.123608.5684@klaava.Helsinki.FI> wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
>cs911461@ariel.yorku.ca (C. D. ARMOUR) writes:
>>I understand Shoestring (or shoelace or something) helps. What is
>>it; where can I get it?
>
>Forget shoelace, it is meant for Minix and doesn't work very well for
>Linux anymore. Look for LILO on the FTP sites. It does basically the
>same thing as shoelace (i.e. boots Linux from hard disk), but better.
>
>>My questions are annoying but one day I'll be an expert and I'll
>>have to answer all the dumb questions!
>
>That's the spirit!
>
>--
>Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi (finger wirzeniu@klaava.helsinki.fi)
Actually, I've been using shoelace for quite some time now and
I've never had any problems or difficulties with it whatsoever.
LILO, on the other hand, seems as yet unstable and there have been
several reports of not being able to boot DOS with LILO, etc.
I would consider switching if I could find any good reason to do so,
but why should I throw out a perfectly working system for an unstable one?