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Re: Install: Dual Boot on Removable Media?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dsb3)
Sun Nov 22 23:46:48 1998
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 22:44:11 -0600 (CST)
From: dsb3 <dsb3@earthlink.net>
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On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, J. Jensen wrote:
>Hi! I just joined this list because of my interest in, and my desire to
>learn, Linux, most likely Redhat. At this time, my family's computer does
>not have hard drive space for me to install Linux on the hard drive.
>
>But, for personal educational purposes only, would it be possible for me to
>install Redhat on a SyQuest SparQ 1Gb disk? Most of the time, the system
>would need to boot to Windows 95, because that's what everyone else in the
>family prefers. Clearing off space on the hard drive isn't a possibility at
>this point; neither is a second physical drive, or another machine altogether.
>
>I'm just wondering if anyone else has tried something like this, or knows
>whether or not it will work, and whether it's advisable or not.
>
I've installed linux on a bootable zip disk, so you shouldn't have any
problems.
a few pointers though:
- if you can't boot to the syquest you'll probably want to use a boot
floppy.
- the system might go pretty slow, especially if it needs a swap partition
on the syquest. since you have 64M you might get away without using a
swap partition at all if you're not planning to run X.
dave
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