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- From: jliddle@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Jean Liddle)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Two Hard drives?
- Summary: BOOT.SYS supports this with NO C: Partition
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.233242.22228@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 23:32:42 GMT
- References: <63992@hydra.gatech.EDU> <Brt6Lz.7Fp@news.udel.edu>
- Organization: Illinois State University
- Lines: 34
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- In article <Brt6Lz.7Fp@news.udel.edu> radel@bach.udel.edu (Todd Radel) writes:
- >OK, folks, here it is: How to keep Linux entirely (err, almost) on a
- >second hard disk and still be able to boot without a floppy. Here's
- >what you do:
- >
- > [ ... ]
- >
- >1. Backup everything.
- >2. Repartition your primary hard disk (drive C:) and add a 1mb partition
- > somewhere. My 119mb drive looks like this:
- >
- > DOS partition /dev/hda1 118mb
- > Linux boot /dev/hda2 1mb
- >
-
- This week I completely repartitioned my hard drives, giving LINUX the
- Lions Share of space. To be on the safe side, I mirrored my entire
- bootable Linux installation on a partition on the second hard drive and
- recompiled the kernel with my ROOT device set to sdb2. Using mcopy
- I copied the resulting Image to the C: drive, from which bootlin4 can
- execute it. I rebooted and Linux worked fine from D:, with absolutely
- no reference to anything on C: beyond the initial BOOT.SYS and BOOTLIN
- calls. If your using DOS on your C: drive anyway, this approach would
- let you avoid having to create an extraneous 1 MB parition.
-
- Using this approach I was able to mess around with the partitioning
- scheme on /dev/sda with no fear of reprisal, beyond having to reinstall
- my DOS stuff from floppy backups. Worked like a charm.
-
- Jean.
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