topic Re: two unrelated qustions in Operating System - Linux

two unrelated qustions

Hanry Zhou — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:31:25 GMT

1. I don't use lilo on my linux server(no lilo man page), but I want to learn the all available options of lilo. Where I can find it.

2. under /usr/share/doc/lilo, there is User_Guide.ps file, how can I read it? Is this a postscript file?

thanks,

Re: two unrelated qustions

Stuart Browne — Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:50:56 GMT

1) you've answered this question youreslf.

You can also look at "The Linux Documentation Project"'s howto's (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html) for more of an idea.

2) Yes. It's a Postscript file. Either dump it to a printer, or use something like 'ghostview' to look at it.

Re: two unrelated qustions

Umapathy S — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 05:29:12 GMT

Hanry,
Stuart has got them. To add a bit more.

You can install lilo and start using it (may be in a test machine). Google for "man lilo" you will get loads. tldp.org is a good source.

In other way, a ps can be converted to pdf, (ps2pdf. I am not recollecting which package, might be ghostview itself) so that it can be read online or printed offline. IMHO I feel pdf is lot better than ps.

HTH,
Umapathy

Re: two unrelated qustions

Martin P.J. Zinser — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 21:40:28 GMT

Hi,

the "root" server for lilo can be found at

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo/!INDEX.html

The source distributions do contain the documentation.

Greetings, Martin

Re: two unrelated qustions

dirk dierickx — Fri, 31 Oct 2003 01:53:20 GMT

i suppose you are using grub at this time. anyway, there i nothing stopping you from installing the lilo package. that way the man page should be available to you.

both packages lilo and grub can be installed at the same time. it is just not possible to use them at the same time.

a .ps file is indeed postscript and can be viewed with something like 'ggv' (in gnome).