Of course you can, suppose no real difference. My system boots to win-98 automatically, so this was the easiest option I found, although if I was using dos, I'd use loadlin. At 11:37 AM 11/13/01 -0500, you wrote: >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 >> > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > >