[97199] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Newbie questions...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Stearns)
Sun Nov 1 20:52:33 1998
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 20:55:51 -0500 (EST)
From: William Stearns <wstearns@pobox.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
cc: spooker4u <radar@cyber-wizard.com>
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On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, spooker4u wrote:
> greetings, I am a disgruntled win95 user and have been convinced to try
> Linux. I am attempting to install the program, but have run across a couple
> of questions that may seem pretty stupid to most of you, but here goes...
>
> I have more than 1 HD installed w/i my computer, and although I am unhappy
> with win95, I am unable to 'cut' myself off from its OS yet. how can I
> install my basic Linux partitions to a HD other than C: (ie. E:\)
>
> the partitions now made, is the only way to "boot" into E:\ drive through
> the floppy disk, then loggin into the partition? is that possible, or am I
> looking at all this the wrong way?
Linux can be installed onto any partition on the first or second
physical hard drive (putting it on the third or higher hard drive requires
some real juggling and usually involves booting from a floppy).
Linux _can_ coexist with your exsiting Windows 95 setup. A few
people have documented how this is done. You can read about it in one of
the HOWTO documents [*1] at:
http://sunsite.unc.edu/linux/HOWTO/
I suspect you'll find some good examples of how this can be done
there. The only real rule is that you will need to free up some space for
at least one or two partitions; RedHat Linux cannot be installed on empty
space on your Windows partitions [*2].
Cheers,
- Bill
References:
[*1] The HOWTO's are just some of the documents in the Linux
Documentation project at:
http://sunsite.unc.edu/linux/
[*2] There are distributions that allow this, but there are some
very good reasons why this is discouraged.
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William Stearns (wstearns@pobox.com)
Mason, buildkernel, and named2hosts are at: http://www.pobox.com/~wstearns
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