You would need to install zipslack or bigslack. (bigslack, if you want the entire linux). Zipslack is designed to be installed a full running copy on linux on a zip disk, but, you can install it on to a dos partition in the c:\linux directory. you run a batch file from dos called loadlin.bat. Better to have a separate linux partition on the drive and boot to linux from lilo. I have dos and win95 on my c: drive and linux on a second drive. dos/win95 doesn't know I have a second drive for linux. It's called a dual-boot system. lilo comes up from the master boot record and asks you which system you want to load, dos/windows for linux. hope this helps. Oh, from my experience you have to unzip zipslack or bigslack archives from windows not from pkunzip from dos. the zipslack and bigslack archives are huge files! -- Bill Gaughan wgaughan@snet.net On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, John J. Boyer 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 >