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Re: Newbie questions...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Stearns)
Mon Nov 2 00:43:17 1998
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 00:45:59 -0500 (EST)
From: William Stearns <wstearns@pobox.com>
To: Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>
cc: ML-redhat <redhat-list@redhat.com>, spooker4u <radar@cyber-wizard.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981101080411.1925C-100000@salmo>
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Good evening, Rich,
On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, William Stearns wrote:
>
> > 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).
>
> I think that this is BIOS dependent. I have 3 physical hard drives and 3
> OSes installed. Win95 is on /dev/hda1, DOS 7 is on /dev/hdb1 and Linux (RH
> 5.1 currently) is on /dev/hdc1. LILO doesn't care where they are and I boot
> into each one from the floppy drive.
I'm glad to hear that. I should have made it clear that my
statements came from experience that is probably quite dated now. The
fact that I've had some problems booting from the third or higher drive
doesn't mean that _everyone_ will!
I'm actually pleasantly surprised that this works with some
bioses.
Cheers,
- Bill
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William Stearns (wstearns@pobox.com)
Mason, buildkernel, and named2hosts are at: http://www.pobox.com/~wstearns
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