From: duncan@ssdd475a.erim.org (Robert Duncan) Subject: Re: using Linux and DOS Date: 24 Jan 1992 20:21:25 GMT
In article <1992Jan23.171127.16247@tc.cornell.edu> beers@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Jim Beers) writes:
> ...
> I would like to try Linux and would be willing to buy a second drive, 80
> Meg IDE drive, and use it as my second drive and dedicate it to linux.
> BUT, I would like to keep the original PC working as is.
> Is this possible? Can I start up with DOS and then switch over to linux?
This sounds very workable. You can leave your first hard drive alone if
you are willing to boot from a floppy disk when you wish to run Linux.
/dev/hd1 - /dev/hd4 are the partitions on the first hard drive, /dev/hd6 -
/dev/hd9 are on the 2nd. Make 2 or 3 partitions on the 2nd drive, one for
your main Linux area, one for a root Linux partition, and possibly one for
swap space. Then edit the boot image to use these areas and write it to a
floppy for booting. (please read the installation instructions first)
Boot without a floppy for MSDOS, with the floppy for Linux.
BTW, 80 meg of disk space should be fine, at least until somebody gets X11r5
ported...