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- From: jhelberg@nl.oracle.com (Joost Helberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Can a boot start on C: and complete on D:?
- Message-ID: <2809@nlsun1.oracle.nl>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 07:35:48 GMT
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- swaliff@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Steve Aliff) writes:
- : 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?
-
- Get LILO, the most flexible boot-loader you can find. You can have
- Linux on one of the drivers and MS-DOS (if you realy want) on the other,
- no mixing needed.
-
- You can find it on several ftp-locations or mail-servers (nic.funet.fi e.g.).
-
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