[1638] in linux-scsi channel archive
RE: How do I partition my hard drives?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Fletcher)
Mon Mar 31 12:38:10 1997
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970331101715.10986A-100000@kovalevskaya>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 09:24:33 -0800 (PST)
From: Ed Fletcher <efletch@ampsc.com>
To: Robert Johannes <rjohanne@piper.hamline.edu>
Cc: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
On 31-Mar-97 Robert Johannes wrote:
>I already have an ide drive, and I'm installing a new scsi drive; I'm
>going to run both dos and linux, and I want to partition the system so
>that linux has the ide drive, and dos has the scsi(I use dos for music
>production, and linux seems quite content with the current ide drive) hard
>drive; I'm wondering if this setup will work. Will there be a problem
>with booting, since linux will be occupying the primary ide bootable
>drive?
You should have no problems running your system with this configuration. Linux
will put Lilo onto the mbr of the ide drive and that will handle the dual boot.
Dos will be happy using the scsi drive and it willl not even know that the ide
drive is there. Linux will, of course, have access to the dos partition if
you choose to mount it.
Cheers,
Ed
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Ed Fletcher
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