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- From: hosp@frost.uni-paderborn.de (Holger Spangardt)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Linux and MS-DOS
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 14:16:16 +0100
- Organization: Universitaet Paderborn, Germany
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- syy@ElSegundoCA.ncr.com (Sang Y. Yum) writes:
-
-
- >Hello, everyone! Again, I turn to net-wisdom for the solution to my problem.
-
- >I have a 120MB IDE Drive and 500MB SCSI Drive on my 386/33 with 8MB RAM.
- >I've been trying to install Linux and DOS on these drive with no success.
-
- >What I am trying to do basically is this:
-
- > First Drive: 120MB IDE
- > 100MB extended Linux file system
- > 20MB linux file system for swap file
- > Second Drive: 500MB SCSI
- > 500MB Dos partition
-
-
- >I tried the following and failed.
-
- > 1. Pulled out IDE Drive.
- > 2. Installed DOS on SCSI drive.
- > 3. Put back IDE Drive.
- > 4. Installed Linux on IDE drive.
- > 5. Installed Lilo 0.8 with correct configuration (I think)
- > 6. Linux boots fine.
- > 6. DOS complains non-system disk.
-
- >Sang
- Of course, DOS doesn't recognize the Linux-partitions there a no other
- partitions on the 1st HD so DOS cannot boot from HD. To boot both systems from
- HD you need to install lilo or bootlin or... You shouldn't pull out any HD's
- during installing the systems. First of all you'll have to decide which of the
- HD's should be the main HD. There is a jumper on the SCSI-HD to change these
- things. Then you should install DOS on the first HD (I think it can't be
- installed on any other) then you should install Linux (which is quite flexible)
- and at the end you need to make them both bootable as described in lilo.doc
- for example.
- Ciao,
- Holger
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