[PLUG] Slackware -- programs missing

Dick Steffens dick at dicksteffens.com
Sat Nov 24 00:42:37 UTC 2018


On 11/23/18 4:19 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Nov 2018, Dick Steffens wrote:
>
>> With the system running the OS on the USB stick, I wasn't sure how to 
>> run
>> lilo for the hard drive. I tried going to /sbin  on the hard drive using
>> Dolphin (I'm guessing this is KDEs GUI file manager), right clicking on
>> lilo, and clicking "run in konsole" but get an error message "Fatal:
>> Cannot open: /etc/lilo.conf. I'm making a guess here, but even though 
>> I'm
>> running the lilo on the hard drive, is it still looking to the USB stick
>> for /etc/lilo.conf? While there's a lilo.conf_example on the USB stick,
>> there's no lilo.conf. Is there a way to run lilo for the hard drive 
>> while
>> telling it to look in /etc on the hard drive for lilo.conf?
>
>   Ah, that helps my understanding. When you're running off the USB 
> drive you
> need to mount the hard drive and each directory you need to access, 
> such as
> /etc. I don't recall off-hand what the full procedure is as I do this 
> only
> every few years when installation doesn't work as expected.
>
>   Tomorrow will probably bring others to this thread and quickly get you
> booting off the hard drive.

I was wondering about that. Hopefully tomorrow will provide, as you surmise.

Thanks.

-- 
Regards,

Dick Steffens





More information about the PLUG mailing list