From: yseeley@leland.Stanford.EDU (Yonik Christopher Seeley) Subject: Re: two drives (1 dos, 1 linux) Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1993 04:23:08 GMT
In article <1993Aug9.183641.24339@dragon.acadiau.ca> 890491g@dragon.acadiau.ca (Don Graves) writes:
>
>Please don't kill me if this is a FAQ, but...
>
>I have:
>
> 486-DLC-33 with 8 megs of ram
> twin 85 meg harddrives (MFM I think)
> standard VGA monitor (but can do 640X480X256 because of 512K card)
> (card is a trident 8900C)
> DOS6 on C: (with doublespace)
> empty dos-formatted drive D:
>
>I want:
>
> to leave the C: HD alone and put linux on the D: HD.
>
>what I don't want to do:
>
> anything to C: as I try to install Linux
>
>Has anyone done this before? Or will I have to nuke C: and start
>from scratch? I'm only planning on putting the basic linux setup
>and X-windows (until I get the feel of linux on my machine at least).
>
>Am I asking for too much, or is this possible. I would really like
>to get around nuking my setup on C:, as it would be a pain to restore/
>re-create. Or will not doing this be more of a pain?
>
>-thanks a bunch in advance
>-Don
It's a piece of cake, this is the same setup I have. You won't
have to touch your C: drive. You may want to delete the dos partition
on the D: drive to start off with a clean installation. Make sure
to use the linux fdisk command to make the partition on your D: drive.
Actually, if you install SLS1.03, it will prompt you for much of this.
- Yonik Seeley
yseeley@cs.stanford.edu
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>BTW, in case you couldn't tell, I have never installed or used linux before.
>I have used unix for a few years, but just not on my own machine.
>
>
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