Current situation:
2.1GB SCSI physical drive with 1 big-ass extended partition (2.09GB) At front of drive is a 7MB FAt partition as my C: drive just to fool OS/2. Then there is a 900MB HPFS partition on which OS/2 lives. Then we have another 1.1GB of free space (where i plan to install SuSe Linux). The os/2 Boot manager is in a 7MB partition at the very end of the drive.

My Plan:
I want to install Linux in that big space I just made by deleting WIN95, and I want to boot using os/2's boot manager, so I can select which OS to use.

The question:
How should I go about installing LINUX so that it uses the os/2 boot manager? Should I install LiLo/loadlin/whatever?

Thanks.

Hi Travis !

You have two possibilities : the first one (you don't seem to like it but I tell it for anyone else interesed...) is to boot all your partitions with lilo. To do that, you would replace the os/2 bootmgr by lilo, and proceed to Suse Linux installation, where you would configure lilo with the os/2 partition.

So the second solution, for you : simply install suse linux, and when the installation program will request it (I expect it does so, I'm used to Redhat/Mandrake installs), install Lilo on your linux partition (You won't go far if you don't install lilo on your drive !). Then go to OS/2 FDISK, and configure the os2 bootmgr to boot your linux partition.

When you'll boot, you'll first have the os/2 bootmgr screen, select linux, the lilo screen will show and you will be able to boot linux.

Regards

Laurent