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- From: swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Steve Aliff)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Can a boot start on C: and complete on D:?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.160846.11260@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 16:08:46 GMT
- Organization: The Great Beyond
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- Having spent some time playing with Linux, I'm ready to get serious
- about it and wish to install it in a more-or-less permanent fashion
- on my system. Unfortunately, it looks like I'm stuck with MSDOS for
- a while yet in order to use my CMS tape drive and maybe a few other
- nit-noy things.
-
- I have two IDE drives; the primary drive is a 105MB quantum, the
- secondary is a 200MB Maxtor. I had planned to dedicate the 105 to
- DOS and the 200 to Linux. However, after playing with Linux for a
- few days, it appears to me that I may need a small Linux partition
- on the 105 in order to boot Linux from the hard-drive. (I'm thinking
- ROOT would go on the 105.) Is this true or is there a program
- similar to SHOELACE which will let me optionally boot MSDOS from my
- 105 OR Linux from my 200?
-
- Any and all advice is welcomed.
-
- TIA,
- --
- Steve Aliff (swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil [144.51.1.1])
-