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 AB9613F01B for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 14:07:50 -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 fADJ7op17302 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 14:07:50 -0500 Received: (from mail@localhost) by mail.redhat.com (8.11.0/8.8.7) id fADJ7oO06397 for blinux-list@listman.redhat.com; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 14:07:50 -0500 Received: from mail1.netacc.net (mail1.netacc.net [208.34.108.26]) by mail.redhat.com (8.11.0/8.8.7) with ESMTP id fADJ7ow06392 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 14:07:50 -0500 Received: from bharding (algoma-host11.doorpi.net [12.37.10.16]) by mail1.netacc.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id fADJ7mm65989 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 14:07:48 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20011113131056.00a60840@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 13:10:56 -0600 To: blinux-list@redhat.com From: Brent Harding Subject: Re: Linux on a 2-Drive Machine In-Reply-To: <00a201c16c61$78a82ec0$e08caad8@tds.net> References: <3.0.6.32.20011113105117.00a5eab0@mail.doorpi.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: 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" >To: >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 >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >_______________________________________________ >> >Blinux-list mailing list >> >Blinux-list@redhat.com >> >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >> > >> > >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Blinux-list mailing list >> Blinux-list@redhat.com >> https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >> > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Blinux-list mailing list >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >