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- From: zhao@unixg.ubc.ca (Jiansheng Zhao)
- Subject: Re: Can I boot off 2nd HD?
- Message-ID: <zhao.715657609@unixg.ubc.ca>
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- Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
- References: <mdmnhw=.genie@netcom.com>
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 01:46:49 GMT
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- In <mdmnhw=.genie@netcom.com> genie@netcom.com (The Genie) writes:
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- >Hi Folks.
-
- >I was wondering if I could boot off of a second hard drive.
- >I have OS/2 2.0 installed in my 120 meg ide with only one HPFS
- >partition, but I would like to install linux to my computer.
- >The easiest way of doing this seems to be buying another HD.
- >So I'd like to install linux into drive d. Of course, drive
- >d would have to be flagged active since I would have to boot into
- >linux. Can Boot Manager boot into drive d? Thanks in advance.
-
- >Gene
-
-
- Yes, I once installled os/2 on my second HD, and boot up from
- Boot Manager without problem. However, if you want add linux to
- boot manager, there are some precautions to be taken. See discusion in
- comp.os.linux.
-
- --
- Jiansheng Zhao
- Dept. Chem. Eng, Univ. of B. C., Canada. V6T 1Z4
- zhao@unixg.ubc.ca
-