-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I will not attempt to answer all your questions, but I would like to say that the note of caution about the lilo loader is a bunch of baloney. You should rely on it once you get your system booted. Of all the media you described, you mentioned making a boot disk during the installation. That is the key to getting your installed system to run so you can then run "liloconfig" to install lilo. You should install it on the MBR (Master Boot Record) of your HD, and to hell with the warnings! The only reason I know for the warnings is that Windows also likes to use that area for its loader, and will remove lilo without warning if it is found there. But since you are not using Windows on that disk, not to worry. You are mostly correct, in that the first name on the boot prompt is usually the name of the kernel you wish to execute. During the initial install, you are actually bringing up a system that resides entirely in memory, not on your HD at all, and the name "ramdisk" is required in that context. That system in ramdisk allows you to partition the HD, format its partitions, and do the rest of the installation steps, using your HD as a "target" that is independent of the running installation system. The "nokeymap" option says not to use a keymap, which would overwrite the keystroke definitions that speakup wants to use, and thus causing you to lose the numpad keys as review keys. Hope this answers some of your questions. Chuck - -- The Moon is Waning Crescent (47% of Full) My home page is now at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBQKESbDVdG8M9x9tGAQLyIAQAr6MJYy7VXjEn6jrf7nnd+4jTn+SJb8MP YuRpimlFpFfjl3MoymcsFiIfOlJSZLdFRIurx5Gtu8Oe5r62rGb1/4EyMXjMR+ro kp1T6GI3OESp4EwsnoQ1RJrXtxXsNOGRL93rkYwsYdSGmoLpeNIuf9MppBxJ9UVE 0TLzNVUklxA= =BoBr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
