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From: Brent Harding <bharding@doorpi.net>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Linux on a 2-Drive Machine
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 13:10:56 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20011113131056.00a60840@mail.doorpi.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00a201c16c61$78a82ec0$e08caad8@tds.net>

Of course you can, suppose no real difference. My system boots to win-98
automatically, so this was the easiest option I found, although if I was
using dos, I'd use loadlin.
At 11:37 AM 11/13/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Brent,
>I don't want to do anything to the C drive, least of all writing in the boot
>record. I just want the D drive to have a complete Linux system. I
>understand that I can start it with loadlin after my system boots to dos in
>the normal way from the C drive.
>John
>
>Computers to Help People, Inc.
>http://www.chpi.org
>825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Brent Harding" <bharding@doorpi.net>
>To: <blinux-list@redhat.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 11:51
>Subject: Re: Linux on a 2-Drive Machine
>
>
>> 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
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 John J. Boyer
 ` Saqib Shaikh
   ` John J. Boyer
 ` Brent Harding
   ` John J. Boyer
     ` Brent Harding [this message]
     ` L. C. Robinson
       ` Brent Harding
         ` BIOS boot control (Was: Linux on a 2-Drive Machine) L. C. Robinson
 ` Linux on a 2-Drive Machine Bill Gaughan

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