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- From: TW.FY4@isumvs.iastate.edu (Timothy I Miller)
- Subject: Re: Can I boot off 2nd HD?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.015606.23336@news.iastate.edu>
- Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 01:56:06 GMT
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- In article <mdmnhw=.genie@netcom.com>,
- genie@netcom.com (The Genie) writes:
- >
- >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
-
- I currently have OS/2 on my second hard drive, and use boot
- manager to boot to the partition on which it is located. It's
- formated HPFS, and is 110 M. I think the thing to worry about is
- not boot manager, but whether your new system (linux) can be booted
- from something other than the C: drive (for example, DOS can only be
- booted from drive C ). I don't know much about linux, but what you
- want to do can be done from the boot manager point of view.
-