From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.44.254]) by listman.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B0BC3F61C for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 11:48:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.redhat.com (mail.redhat.com [199.183.24.239]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id fADGmDp31542 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 11:48:13 -0500 Received: (from mail@localhost) by mail.redhat.com (8.11.0/8.8.7) id fADGmDC14780 for blinux-list@listman.redhat.com; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 11:48:13 -0500 Received: from mail2.netacc.net (mail2.netacc.net [208.34.108.27]) by mail.redhat.com (8.11.0/8.8.7) with ESMTP id fADGmDw14774 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 11:48:13 -0500 Received: from bharding (algoma-host28.doorpi.net [12.37.10.33]) by mail2.netacc.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id fADGmBL26393 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 11:48:11 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20011113105117.00a5eab0@mail.doorpi.net> X-Sender: bharding@mail.doorpi.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:51:17 -0600 To: blinux-list@redhat.com From: Brent Harding Subject: Re: Linux on a 2-Drive Machine In-Reply-To: <000b01c16c4d$47e42460$e08caad8@tds.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Loop: blinux-list@redhat.com Sender: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com Errors-To: blinux-list-admin@redhat.com X-BeenThere: blinux-list@redhat.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.1 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: blinux-list@redhat.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux for blind general discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Well, you'd have to format the D drive, and install linux on it, redhat is a cool distribution to use. It has to be installed on /dev/hdb1 or something, hdb means the second drive. You need to repartition it with linux fdisk, but it's easy. Redhat, in it's installation, will ask if you have any other OS to boot, and you choose that to be /dev/hda1 for the dos drive. You want to have lilo write to the master boot record of /dev/hda, so when you boot, you would type either dos or linux. You can go in to /etc/lilo.conf later to change the default if you just wait, and rerun lilo. At 09:12 AM 11/13/01 -0500, you wrote: >Hello, >I have a machine with two disk drives. The C drive is now running Windows >98. The D drive is used for backup. The machine boots into dos, so I can run >dos programs if Windows commits suicide. I'm thinking of puting Linux on >what is now the D drive. Then I would have a little DOS program to start it >up after the machine boots. How can I write such a program? How do I install >Linux on what is now the D drive. There will be plenty of space to still use >it for backup. Better still, there are other machines on our network which >can be used for backup. >Thanks a lot. >John > >Computers to Help People, Inc. >http://www.chpi.org >825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703 > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Blinux-list mailing list >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >