Well, you'd have to format the D drive, and install linux on it, redhat is a cool distribution to use. It has to be installed on /dev/hdb1 or something, hdb means the second drive. You need to repartition it with linux fdisk, but it's easy. Redhat, in it's installation, will ask if you have any other OS to boot, and you choose that to be /dev/hda1 for the dos drive. You want to have lilo write to the master boot record of /dev/hda, so when you boot, you would type either dos or linux. You can go in to /etc/lilo.conf later to change the default if you just wait, and rerun lilo. At 09:12 AM 11/13/01 -0500, you wrote: >Hello, >I have a machine with two disk drives. The C drive is now running Windows >98. The D drive is used for backup. The machine boots into dos, so I can run >dos programs if Windows commits suicide. I'm thinking of puting Linux on >what is now the D drive. Then I would have a little DOS program to start it >up after the machine boots. How can I write such a program? How do I install >Linux on what is now the D drive. There will be plenty of space to still use >it for backup. Better still, there are other machines on our network which >can be used for backup. >Thanks a lot. >John > >Computers to Help People, Inc. >http://www.chpi.org >825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703 > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >