HD Install :: Lost Install

Hmm, how about some sort of script that can tell if a file has been modified or added since the original install (need a reference file?), and back up said files?
Might possibly be a way of creating the "modular" DSL - ie., do an install, add opera, php and mysql (a "server" module), find which files have been added, and create a system to allow these files to be compressed, backed up, uploaded -> the reverse to install said package!?

Just shooting in the dark here...

You could try the following from the live-CD in an xterm:

lilo -C /hda6/etc/lilo.conf

this assumes that /hda6/etc/lilo.conf exists and is correct. I haven't tried this - it may not work and it may also stop you from booting windows.

With slack in the past I've used chroot to recover lilo after mounting the drive.
Then switch to /sbin & rerun lilo to reinstall on mbr.

Am currently at work so can't check with DSL & can't remember lilo flags other than -v for verbose

Why not create another very small hda6 partition and do a simple hdinstall there, and make a floppy boot disk. Then change the details on the floppy to read hda5 instead. That would then boot you into your old installation, and you could create a new LILO to the mbr, if that is what you want. You could then remove the temporary hda6 partition. DSL is so small that all thisa would not take long.

Oliver1386

Sorry, I misread your details. For hda5 read hda6 and for hda6 read hda7

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