From: Chris Cannon (cannon@mksol.dseg.ti.com)
Date: 09/01/93


From: cannon@mksol.dseg.ti.com (Chris Cannon)
Subject: Re: I going for it guys ...
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 18:13:39 GMT

Paul Trouton (ptrouton@bfsec.bt.co.uk) wrote:

: I am considering using Linux on my system. At present I am using DOS6.

: My spec is as follows.

: 486/66 VLBus
: 8MB Ram
: ET4000 Local Bus display
: 15" Multisync

: Can I buy a second harddrive and install Linux onto it as D:. Once both C:(dos) and
: D:(Linux) are present in the CMOS, can I select on bootup which to use. If this is
: possible, how do I do it?

        There are two options: LILO and bootlin. I suggest bootlin, because
        it does not mess w/ the boot sector on your dos drive. I can
        give you more info later, but its pretty easy to use.

        BTW, there are going to be several new distributions relatively
        soon (a few weeks from the posts I've seen). I would either
        wait for them or use Slackware 1.01 (ftp.cdrom.com /pub/linux/slackware)
        instead of using SLS 1.3.

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