Brent, I don't want to do anything to the C drive, least of all writing in the boot record. I just want the D drive to have a complete Linux system. I understand that I can start it with loadlin after my system boots to dos in the normal way from the C drive. John Computers to Help People, Inc. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brent Harding" <bharding@doorpi.net> To: <blinux-list@redhat.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 11:51 Subject: Re: Linux on a 2-Drive Machine > 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >